Archive - Ham Typed

The Quality of Online Textbooks is Problematic

Publishers know their customers are locked in year after year, and they’ll always have new suckers to scalp because there will always be new kids going…

Jan 24 •

December 2023

Invite your friends to read Ham Typed

Thank you for reading Ham Typed — your support allows me to keep doing this work. If you enjoy Ham Typed, it would mean the world to me if you invited…

Dec 3, 2023 •

November 2023

Pens of the Year, 2023

I'm a bit of an obsessive personality, having assembled many collections of tools over the years. Some are more useful than others, but none so more…

Nov 6, 2023 •

August 2023

Building Desktop Apps With Deno

Deno 1.36 brings a small, but powerful, upgrade to deno compile. Now, developers can compile native binaries on Windows that don’t depend on a console…

Aug 13, 2023 •

March 2023

An Interview the Creator of ZLS (Zig Language Server)

We talk about what it's like to write the default language server for an entire language, Zig's unique take on community, and what it's like to hit it…

Mar 1, 2023 •

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November 2022

Today I learned there's a blood moon this Tuesday (11/8/22)

And I've seem to misplaced my grimoire

Nov 7, 2022 •

October 2022

Wikipedia is Not Short on Cash

The notorious beggar has a rapidly growing $400 million war chest.

Oct 12, 2022 •

Digital Rights Management Might Ruin My Next Vacation

10 | We shouldn’t have to worry about losing access to stuff we’ve purchased without getting some kind of equivalent compensation.

Oct 4, 2022 •

August 2022

How We Can Fixed Publishing Online

Or “Explaining the first step in my evil plan to make writing easier”

Aug 15, 2022 •

July 2022

No puzzle. Just pieces. To be put down at any time. In any order. At your discretion. Thanks for reading Ham Typed! Subscribe for free to receive new…

Jul 20, 2022 •

June 2022

AWS Lightsail’s networking gave me a headache

This week at work was plenty silly. I was tasked with building the world’s simplest web app. A 4-route REST server blocked by a single login, connected…

Jun 1, 2022 •

April 2022

07 | The dead have risen

In a sequel everyone saw coming

Apr 22, 2022 •

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