Engineering in Natural Language
I value writing high-quality code, and I’m curious how things work. Over the past few years I’ve been…
Technical Writing
Taking technology apart to see how it works—from Unicode and browsers to machine translation and graphics.
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Patterns Are Stronger Than Prompts
I get nervous when I pull up an AGENTS.md that is packed with information. How weird is my…
Tests That Prove Something
In my work on high quality code generation, it’s more important than ever to create cheat-proof tests. Testing…
Fast Checks for Code Generation
I’ve been thinking a lot about code generation with AI agents lately, and wanted to start writing a…
Datasets - How Neural Machine Translation Works
I’m currently working on training client-side translation models for Firefox. These models are small distilled models that can…
Encoding Text in UTF-8 – How Unicode Works (Part 2)
In part 1 of this article I covered the idea of creating character sets, and different strategies for…
Diacritical Marks in Unicode
I won’t bury the lede, by the end of this article you should be able to write your…
Encoding Text, UTF-32 and UTF-16 – How Unicode Works (Part 1)
The standard for how to represent human writing for many years was ASCII, or American Standard Code for…
Better Code Reviews with Mercurial History Rewriting
This is a companion piece to the Better Code Reviews with git History Rewriting, but this time with…
Better Code Reviews with git History Rewriting
The following post is a walkthrough on how I take a larger pull request, and break it down…
Drawing ASCII Art to Test a Physics System
Generating my own ASCII art in programming projects is a great way to solve certain hard problems. Diagrams…
Documenting Regex with ASCII Art
Generating my own ASCII art in programming projects is a great way to solve certain hard problems. Diagrams…
WebGL Model View Projection
As part of a fellowship with MDN in 2016, I wrote content around the use of the model,…
Matrix Math for the Web
As part of a fellowship with MDN in 2016, I wrote content around the use of matrix math,…
How to Draw Beautiful Things in the Browser
In 2014 I wrote a pretty detailed post on getting into creative coding. It featured live code examples,…