Stories by spiffytech

Pearls Before Breakfast

I could do that in a weekend (2016)

I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower

Open Source Beyond the Market

ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)

Joe Biden is so mad at Facebook he wants to “revoke” SEC. 230 for everyone

Ask HN: Why is it so expensive to deploy a container to the cloud?

I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor

Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)

Building a WebApp from A-Z: The Caucus Tech Stack (2016)

The loom and the thresher: Lessons in technological worker displacement

Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL

In praise of developers who delete code

I developed an app that runs on both desktop and mobile platforms alone

A Simple Synchronization Algorithm

I Used the Web for a Day on a 50 MB Budget

Kinto: A datastore from Mozilla for building offline apps

Programmer Competency Matrix

Ask HN: When would you use MongoDB?

Fable: F# – Babel

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