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As I've been building more libraries in the Gleam ecosystem, I've taken advantage of Gleam's support for file system dependencies. Path deps let you create local workspaces with multiple Gleam packages linked and built together. It's great! The first work

In package.json considered harmful , I made the case that JSON is a poor config format and that JSONC and JSON5 don't actually fix the problem - they just extend the lifespan of a bad bet. If comments are a requirement (and I think they are), and if simpl

Any web developer over the last 15 years or so has encountered JSON . It stands for JavaScript Object Notation, and it is one of the most ubiquitous data formats on the web today. It is, as they say, literally everywhere. You'd be forgiven for thinking it

Thanksgiving has been my favorite of the US holidays for some time. I've written about it several times over the years . When I am away for the holiday, I have used the following Rumi quote as my auto-reply message at work: Wear gratitude like a cloak, an

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The News Last week, my wife shared with me some rather alarming news: Coke Zero is being discontinued . As a man who has an arguably unhealthy attachment to his carbonated beverage of choice, this was panic-worthy. You'll forgive me ...

Well, it's happened again. They've gone and renamed Comiskey Park to something else. And I feel about the same way I did back in 2004 , when the last name change happened. I lived a few blocks from the park at that time, as opposed to the few thousand I d

I have a tradition on Thanksgiving: I listen to Arlo Guthrie's classic Alice's Restaurant Massacre ; all 18 minutes and 37 seconds of it. I don't remember exactly where I picked up this tradition, but it feels distinctly mine since it's not something that

Engineer is a side project for me right now. That means that while I am actively working on Engineer pretty regularly, releases themselves are not necessarily regular. I've adopted a repository/branch structure that's influenced by git flow , so my main d

Daniel Cook tells you more than you ever needed to know about loot tables . Unless you're a game designer, of course…