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A blog rewrite born from COVID quarantine and a Bermuda wedding. Exploring contentlayer, NextJS 13's app router, and the inevitable bugs.

Productive vacation: finally squashing long-standing bugs in personal projects. React upgrades, auth fixes, RSS feed repairs, and more.

Recovering from isolation, I turned to coding: building Discord bots, updating old projects, and wrestling with the perils of a custom CMS.

Ditching Twitter? I built a simple app that emails you plain text tweets from key people daily. Easy Heroku deployment, open to contributions.

Nat highlights Jon Gold's great post about AI, typography, and how to approach design problems.

Why SDK versioning matters: Prevent broken code from breaking your users. Learn from Google's gcloud SDK and the importance of rollbacks.

Nat spent the morning wrestling with Go maps for an archive page. In the afternoon, Nat visited the Met and had dinner with friends.

A profile of Josette Melchor, the force behind San Francisco's Gray Area, a non-profit validating creative coding and urban prototyping.

Even with clear standards, coding errors happen. A wry observation on misinterpreting RFC specifications in programming.

Nat explores the concept of crowd-based sorting in this post.

A programmer considers diving into technical papers after seeing multiple reading lists. Should they start writing summaries?

Nat shares a classic "Nerd World Problem": a 502 error that stumped him for 30 minutes, only to realize his code was running on the wrong server.

The frustrating allure of reinventing the wheel. A programmer's lament on the urge to build, even when it's utterly pointless.

Regex giving you trouble? This post explores a tricky markdown parsing edge case and the perils of complex regular expressions.

The unique satisfaction of squashing bugs in open source software and the high that comes with contributing code.

Google's DevArt: art made with code. Exploring Google's project to program a new generation of artists.

Exploring Markov Chains and their creative possibilities in programming.

Weekend explorations in mapping and coding, inspired by open source tools and the Google Maps API.

Exploring Android app database integration. Notes on OrmLite, ActiveAndroid, and new Google Play Store rules.

Sed Chess, browser-based 3D editors, and CSVs: equally pointless and amazing. Why do these technological marvels bother me so much?

Software engineering insights: what separates great programmers from the rest, plus a look at Mac development and the Church-Turing thesis.

Nat talks about "Code Reads" as an interesting way to make money, and suggests it could work for open source blog posts too.

Ruby update out! Get the best method for compiling Ruby on your Mac, plus an example using Ruby 2.0.0.

"Onions in the varnish" describes unconscious habits and traditions, especially in programming. Where does this phrase come from, and why do we do it?

Software development's biggest problem? Neglecting maintenance. One developer calls out companies, like Apple, prioritizing new features over fixing existing ones.

Nat shares an interesting markdown library that fixes all the usual complaints about Markdown.

A quick introduction to Processing.js, a Javascript framework for creating dynamic and visual HTML5 canvas elements. Learn the basics with examples.

Automate weekly summaries of your Delicious (del.icio.us) bookmarks using a simple Bash script. Learn how to parse the API and format the output.

Nat talks about his love/hate relationship with 80-character line limits and shares how to make Vim highlight long lines.

Customize Vim with these practical key bindings. Toggle line numbers/wrapping, paste without auto-formatting, and control code folds with ease.

Nat shares useful PHP functions from his personal site, like an age calculator, time since formatter, and a Twitter message parser.

Nat explains why he prefers using `find` over `grep` for searching code, sharing a useful trick for filtering results.

Nat went to SuperHappyDevHouse 19 to code, but mostly met new people and had a blast.