2026 Personal Tech Stack
My yearly tradition no one sane cares about
Everything
This is what is online right now. More will be revived later?
Custom Kids’ Podcasts With NotebookLM
Using NotebookLM to create personalized podcasts for kids
2024 Personal Tech Stack
An on-spectrum overview of the tools and services I use regularly
Hierarchical Tags in Hugo
Making your posts a dessert topping and a floor wax
Using FZF in a Deno Script
Piping to FZF, with extra steps
Debugging Hugo via meta tags
Start using your <head> when working
Make Git better with FZF
How to look like a cool movie hacker while using Git
Extracting FitBit Weight Data
Stealing your history back from FitBit, minus the janky interpolated values
Letterbox Blur with ImageMagick
Putting round pegs into square image holes
Scripting Photo Collages with ImageMagick
Automating something I don’t even do anymore
Getting Debian to send emails that actually get delivered
Making sure your algorithmic love letters don’t get lost
Linux disk encryption with LUKS and LVM
An unreasonable number of steps to get reasonable disk security on Linux
Working From Everywhere
How to make your co-workers think you’re working from Mordor
Merging piped stdin with command-line arguments within Bash
How to avoid using xargs at all costs
Mixing React and DOM events
Figuring out why your foot got blown off after you inadvertently shot it
Using Rclone and MergerFS together across drives
Create an encrypted drive pool in a hundred steps or less
One Good Tweet
I’m a one-hit wonder on Twitter; this is life with a marginally-popular tweet
Using Language Servers in Neovim
Adding IDE-like features into Neovim via the Language Server Protocol
Coda
Talking about what I’ve been working on for the last three years.
Command-line photo geotagging
Using Google location data in order to geotag photographs from a camera via the command-line
Adventures in command-line photo organization
Some terminal commands used to tame a poorly-organized set of photographs before uploading to Google Photos
Updated Pareto Browser Filter
2014 guide to dropping support older browsers to simplify development
Talking Treesaver
Slides and video from me talking about Treesaver at ISOJ
Treesaver on The Big Web Show
Talking about Treesaver, dynamic layout, and web design on a podcast
The Pareto Browser Filter
Stop supporting problematic browsers in order to vastly simplify development
Treesaver Open Source Release
Releasing Treesaver as open source and inviting the internet to poke at it
Treesaver gets Scobleized
Robert Scoble interviews me about Treesaver
Introducing Treesaver
A new way to build paginated reading layouts with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Soft Hyphenator
Automatically stuffing soft hyphens into HTML so justified text behaves better
jMetronome: Using jQuery to keep typographic rhythm
Fixing broken vertical rhythm on the web with a little jQuery nudge
Introducing the Dynamic Layout Library
JavaScript for responsive layouts
Font Rendering Across Rich Platforms
Comparing how the usual rich-platform suspects render type at reading sizes
The Sad State of Online Advertising
Why premium publishers keep ending up with bargain-bin web ads
Video and Screenshots from the Mix Panel
A panel video, some demo screenshots, and early reading-experience prototypes
Creating WPF Text Layouts is Hard
A preview of the many ways attractive text layout can hurt you in WPF
So Long
Leaving Microsoft, heading to Beijing, and keeping the blog nerdy
Stylistic Alternates
OpenType swashes, alternates, and other ways to show off with fonts
A Tale of Two Transforms
The important difference between moving pixels and moving layout
Contextual Alternates
Fancy OpenType glyph substitutions for when one letter shape is not enough
Enabling Ligatures in Avalon
Turning on a centuries-old typography trick in Avalon
Custom Layouts in Avalon
Building your own layout engine in Avalon without losing your mind
Why Vectors?
Why vector UI matters once pixels stop behaving themselves