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1 d Fixing Zed's debugger keybindings Home
Ideas for faster web dev cycle Home
2 d AltTab for Mac OS Home
Stage manager in Mac OS Home
Zed debug setup for go server / Svelte web app Home
3 d Using await in Svelte 5 components Home
lazy import of JavaScript modules Home
4 d vite /rollup manualChunks Home
5 d Increase software sales by 50% or more Home
6 d File sync is very slow Home
13 d New Edna feature: multiple notes Home
14 d Evolving Edna Ask AI UI Home
Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Home
15 d Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Home
Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application Home
16 d Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux Home
Case study of over-engineered C++ code Home
17 d Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Home
18 d Size textarea to content Home
20 d All about Svelte 5 snippets Home
21 d C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code Home
22 d Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Home
23 d Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF Home
24 d Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 Home
26 d Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Home
27 d Go is 80/20 language Home
28 d Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup Home
29 d How I made SumatraPDF crash less Home
31 d Ban std::string Home
Compressing for the browser in Go Home
32 d Thoughts on C/C++ killer Home
33 d Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 Home
Idea for code editors Home
35 d Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Home
38 d Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF Home
41 d Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Home
42 d Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 Home
328 d Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) Home
Modern C++ Home
329 d Software Home
333 d Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Home
391 d Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Home
469 d Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ Home
855 d How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Home
865 d Advanced markdown processing in Go Home
867 d Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB Home
885 d I’m a Go freelancer for hire Home / About me
About me Home
886 d Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites Home
888 d Hiding duplicate content from your site via robots.txt Home
Writings Home
890 d Logging HTTP requests in Go Home
891 d How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60% Home
Summary of David Ditzel talk on binary translation Home / Where do bugs come from?
Startup management lessons from “The Social Network” Home
Value your time Home
Paradox of bad comments Home
Writing to sell Home
Where do bugs come from? Home
Marketing lessons from WebP launch Home
You have to implement to understand Home
Designing web forums software Home
gflags - a debugging story Home
Document your software Home
Using Fabric for deploying server software Home
On difference between amateur and professional shareware Home
Summary of talk on continuous deployment Home
892 d XML is really, really slow Home
Sumatra PDF 0.3 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.6 released Home
Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go Home
90% of success is showing up - a proof Home
SumatraPDF 1.7 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.8 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.9 released Home
Showing html from memory in embedded web control on windows Home
A list of chm readers/viewers for Windows Home
SumatraPDF 2.0 released Home
Buying a certificate for signing windows applications Home
SumatraPDF 2.1 released Home
Websites with free ePub and mobi ebooks Home
How I sped up Go by 20% (or is Go really slower than Java?) Home
SumatraPDF 1.5 released Home
Speeding up Go with custom allocators Home / Go Cookbook
Design and implementation of translation system for desktop software Home
SumatraPDF 2.2 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.4 released Home
How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows Home
SumatraPDF 2.4 released Home
Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World Home
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released Home
SumatraPDF 3.0 released Home
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go Home
Improving speed of SMAZ compressor by 2.6x/1.5x Home / Go Cookbook
Accessing GitHub API from Go Home / Go Cookbook
Go package for better guid generation Home
Extracting files from .7z archives in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Home
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size Home
What I've learned from "After the Gold Rush" Home
Engineering school (summary of Rick Catell talk) Home
Bugs and eyeballs Home
Principle of good design: discoverability Home
The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed Home
Good programming practices Home
Review of “Hot text - web writing that works” Home
Accurate timers on Windows Home
High-resolution timer for timing code fragments Home
Basics of writing DOS .bat batch files Home
Compile-time asserts in C Home
Tutorial for CLSS flexbox library for Go Home
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) Home
Embedding binary resources on Windows Home
Sumatra PDF is born Home
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software Home
Sumatra PDF 0.2 released Home
Performance optimization story Home
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses Home
Business articles Home
SumatraPDF 0.4 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.5 released Home
My social marketing failure Home
Few things I’ve learned when writing Sumatra PDF Home
A debugging story Home
Go programming articles Home
SumatraPDF 0.6 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.3 released Home
Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++ Home
Sumatra PDF 0.7 released Home
Sumatra 0.8 released Home
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify Home
Variadic Macros (C++) Home
SumatraPDF 0.8.1 release Home
Trade offs in designing versatile log format Home
Writing a custom installer for Windows software Home
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go Home
The things we do to ship desktop software Home
List of CBR, CBZ comic book readers for windows Home
List of CHM readers and viewers for Window Home
List of ePub format readers and viewers for Windows Home
List of mobi format readers and viewers for Windows Home
List of website with free eBooks in EPUB and MOBI formats Home
realloc() on Windows vs. Linux Home
The Silver Searcher windows port Home / Software
How I use Roam Research Home
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF Home
SumatraPDF 0.9 released Home
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Home
SumatraPDF 1.2 released Home
Executable compressors comparisons: upx 3.07w vs. mpress 2.17 Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.1 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.3 released Home
ssh tips Home
Sumatra 0.9.4 release Home
SumatraPDF 1.0 released Home
Best captcha is exotic captcha Home
E-books economics Home
Productivity ideas Home
@levelsio and survivorship bias Home
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code Home
uISV stories Home
SumatraPDF 1.1 release Home
Go vs. Python for a simple web server Home
Tools that find bugs in c and c++ code via static code analysis Home
SEO is harder than you think Home
Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog commenting software Home
8 habits for becoming a better programmer Home
Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake Home
900 d filerotate - Go library for rotating files Home / Software
921 d Hide header on scroll in Svelte Home
How I reverse engineered Notion API Home
922 d Diary of a solo dev building a web app Home
Typescript basics Home
Basics of freelancing Home
Small business stories Home
Big projects written in Go Home
Companies using go Home
Programming articles Home
Social media image sizes Home
Summary of “Sell to Strangers” video about content marketing Home
Summary of Founders Battle Talk #7 about SEO Home
Portable Executable File Format Home
Rewritten - tales of rewriting software from X to Go Home
Sending emails with Mailgun in Go Home
Using MySQL in Docker for local testing in Python Home
A short guide to marketing for developers Home
Essentials of Starting Indie Business Home
Finding freelancers Home
Using Go instead of bash for scripts Home
Using GitHub Actions with Go Home
Summary Of "The Mom test" book about validating business ideas Home
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Home
1103 d Tech note: speed of iteration in programming Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1104 d Day 35: fixed onedrive, gdrive token refresh Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1105 d Tech note: Dropbox login Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Tech note: JavaScript debugging helpers Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 34: more backblaze, refactorings Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1107 d Day 33: more backblaze Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1109 d Day 25: Google Drive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 19: analytics, context menu Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
JavaScript optimization story Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 32: optimizations, backblaze Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 31: tweaking bookmarks list Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 30: better dialogs Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 29: optimizing file representation and s3 Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 28: OneDrive support, more file properties Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 27: better Google Drive login, One Drive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 26: more google drive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 24: dialog refactoring Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 0: the idea Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 23: file copy Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 1: tech stack, creating project from scratch Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 2: displaying list of files Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 3: Dropbox Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 4: s3, sorting, remembering credentials Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 5: setting up a website Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 6: Dropbox fix, bug fixes and small improvements Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 7: context menu, file delete Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 8: more file delete, file upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 9: Dropbox upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 10: s3 file delete, ui tweaks Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 11: upload file to local fs Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 12: s3 upload and delete directories Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 13: local fs fixes Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 14: image preview, file rename Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 15: text preview Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 16: bookmarks Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 17: file download Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 18: improving s3 upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 22: file properties Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 20: fs refactoring Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 21: s3 create new dir, last modification time Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1110 d Programmer productivity: lines of code edition Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1118 d Filerion marketing Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1121 d Using Roam Research for productivity Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Filerion tech stack Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on developer productivity Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on getting user feedback Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on documentation Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1128 d S3 and directories Home / Software / Filerion documentation
Upload files from your computer Home / Software / Filerion documentation
1436 d Pure Bash Bible Home
1437 d Vim Reference Home
Using Notion API Go client Home / Software
siser Home / Software
atomicfile - robustly writing to a file in Go Home / Software
2169 d Fuzzing Markdown parser written in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2187 d Pigz windows port Home / Software
2469 d Go Cookbook Home
2912 d Experience porting 4.5k loc of C to Go (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation Yoga) Home / Go Cookbook
2935 d 3 ways to iterate in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2936 d Using MySQL in Docker for local testing In Go Home / Go Cookbook
Rotate log files daily in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Simple serialization format for logging and analytics in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Embedding build number in Go executable Home / Go Cookbook
HTTPS for free in Go, with little help of Let's Encrypt Home / Go Cookbook
Advanced command execution in Go with os/exec Home / Go Cookbook
Generating good unique ids in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2942 d Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories Home

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