Posts by popularity

Posts by popularity; updated semi-regularly. Data from stats.arp242.net and collected since 28 May 2019.

• 124,708 YAML: probably not so great after all
• 79,457 Tired of Stack Overflow
• 71,733 Statically compiling Go programs
• 61,458 Go is not an easy language
• 44,859 Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019
• 36,560 Curl to shell isn’t so bad
• 34,497 s/bash/zsh/g
• 33,040 Scripting tmux
• 32,901 Go’s features of last resort
• 22,178 The web as a GUI toolkit
• 21,608 The downsides of JSON for config files
• 19,548 How to detect automatically generated emails
• 17,210 The Art of Unix Programming
• 15,870 Stupid light software
• 12,259 An API is a user interface
• 10,030 Some zshrc tricks
• 9,484 Stallman isn't great, but not the devil
• 8,373 Bitmasks for nicer APIs
• 8,331 Running Go CLI programs in the browser with WASM
• 7,847 Flags are great for configuration
• 7,838 Why GoatCounter ignores Do Not Track
• 7,233 Open source DIY ethics
• 6,963 Effective VimScript
• 6,851 Choosing a license for GoatCounter
• 6,500 Analytics on personal websites
• 5,683 Using flags for configuration in Go
• 5,567 Getting started with RimWorld modding on Linux
• 5,399 Experiences with email-based login
• 5,109 Why Hello CSS doesn’t use CSS variables
• 5,052 Freedom is not simple
• 4,971 VimLog – a ChangeLog for Vim
• 4,970 Safe terminal escape codes
• 4,893 The problems with hard wrapping email body text
• 4,782 Go testing style guide
• 4,528 PHP’s fopen() is broken
• 4,381 Bookmarklets to deal with annoying designs
• 4,176 The shell scripting trap
• 4,047 The Art of Unix Programming, reformatted
• 3,527 Better UX when reading from stdin
• 3,456 Why “rape games” are worse than violent games
• 3,386 It’s fine to be elitist, sometimes
• 3,089 The other kind of censorship
• 2,848 Testing isn’t everything
• 2,777 You (probably) don’t need Kubernetes
• 2,561 Easy means easy to debug
• 2,493 Storing files in .git
• 2,469 Anti-vaxers are not evil
• 2,467 Good comments read well and are to the point
• 2,321 Downsides of working remotely
• 2,311 The value of negative arguments
• 2,227 Vim myths
• 2,160 Let’s not be pedantic about “Open Source”
• 2,028 Making find -exec faster
• 1,849 I don’t like git, but I’m going to migrate my projects to it
• 1,727 On being the right size
• 1,588 My first vimrc
• 1,587 Source code shame
• 1,583 Why isn’t Amazon.com signing their emails?
• 1,332 Why write?
• 1,126 Creating temporary files in PHP
• 993 Empathy is required for democracy
• 974 A primer on the str and bytes types in Python 3
• 958 Learning a programming language
• 862 Browsers and conflicts of interests
• 828 Being right
• 739 Copyright, culture, and democracy
• 594 Why teach kids to program?
• 578 Some thoughts on CDNs
• 461 Security of Python’s pickle and marshal modules
• 352 Robots!
• 319 Vested interest in mismanaging government
• 206 Intercept outgoing mails in Ruby on Rails
• 125 The Art of Unix Programming
• 103 Making FlagShihTzu work well with Formtastic
• 26 Getting started with RimWorld modding on Linux