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An economist told me the worst part of her job is turning Excel data into HTML tables, so I built an add-in to fix it. Many software...

Mon 30 September 2019

Hy(lang) is a LISP-family programming language built on top of Python. You get the rich Python language & library ecosystem, with a LISP...

Thu 26 September 2019

This post originally appeared on the David Walsh blog. In this 15 minute tutorial we're going to build a simple decentralized chat...

Wed 27 March 2019

Let's build software like an axe. feature n. A prominent or distinctive aspect, quality, or characteristic: a feature of one's...

Mon 12 November 2018

A problem faced by decentralized systems is that of naming things. The problem is best expressed by Zooko's Triangle which conjectured...

Fri 31 August 2018

Frock is a little experimental tool for writing PHP scripts using Clojure-like LISP syntax. If you want to see what the code looks like,...

Wed 27 June 2018

I built a little blockchain-in-a-browser in ClojureScript to help understand the underlying algorithms. You can simulate a network of...

Wed 13 June 2018

There are times in life when you need to keep track of periodic events as they happen. For example when you have a new baby it is...

Thu 06 July 2017

watch-make is a script that rebuilds your project only when make detects it needs a rebuild, for example when source files change....

Wed 31 May 2017

My wife and I needed a collaborative shopping list that we could update from our phones. There are proprietary solutions to this but...

Sat 28 May 2016