This index page tries really hard to be the best index page it can, but it falls short. Have patience with it.

In the meantime, here are some of my most popular articles.

• Survival Analysis for Customer Retention
• Purely Functional AVL Trees in Common Lisp
• A Gentle Introduction To Monad Transformers
• Technical Writing: Learning from Kernighan
• The “What Are Monads?” Fallacy
• Guessing Game: Ada Style!

If you were looking for something else, you may find it below. This is a complete listing of all published articles.

Archive

2023-03-16 Sidescrolling Flight Simulator

• life
• meta

2023-03-01 Mind the Gap When Learning

• learning
• organisations
• meta_programming

2023-02-25 Difficult Questions From Children

• life
• learning

2023-02-18 Data Consistency Is Overrated

• programming
• meta_programming

2023-02-09 Validate Your Skill

• learning
• life

2023-02-04 Frequentism And False Dichotomies

• statistics
• learning

2023-02-02 Historic Mistakes: Carriers And Presses

• learning
• organisations

2023-01-29 The Secret of Meritocracy

• life
• organisations
• work_culture

2023-01-28 The Reinforcing Nature of Toil

• sysadmin
• management

2023-01-26 Three Customers In A Bank

• statistics

2023-01-24 Share Buybacks Are Indirect Investments

• economy
• organisations

2023-01-22 Central Banks Do Not Rule By Decree

• technology
• management
• organisations

2023-01-21 Stop Saying “Junior” And “Senior”

• meta_programming
• work_culture

2023-01-20 Emptying the Dishwasher With Systems Theory

• statistics
• life
• meta_programming

2023-01-18 Evolution Preserves the Status Quo

• learning
• product_development

2023-01-13 Confusing Uncertainty For Information

• learning
• product_development

2023-01-12 Predicting Resource Usage From Increased Traffic

• statistics
• sysadmin

2023-01-11 You Can (Somewhat) Reliably Measure Change Failure Rate

• meta_programming
• statistics

2023-01-10 Hovering a Helicopter

• life
• learning

2023-01-09 Verifiable Software Development Estimations

• maths
• statistics
• meta_programming
• product_development

2023-01-07 Programmers and Non-Coding Work

• meta_programming
• work_culture

2022-11-29 Sampling For Managers

• maths
• management
• statistics

2022-11-04 Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner’s Guide

• statistics
• life
• management

2022-08-05 Queueing Systems 2: Percentiles and Simulation

• statistics

2022-08-01 Markov Chains for Queueing Systems

• statistics

2022-07-28 Bootstrapping Kaplan–Meier Survival Curves

• statistics
• maths

2022-07-25 Long Hiatus: Emacs Upgrades

• meta
• emacs

2022-07-25 Dichotomisation Destroys Data

• statistics

2022-07-16 Poor Man’s Logistic Regression

• statistics
• learning

2022-05-07 Quick Variance Computation

• statistics

2022-04-26 Group Decision-Making and Debate

• organisations

2021-12-02 Default To Large Modules

• programming

2021-10-18 Estimating Work Lag

• statistics
• management
• meta_programming

2021-09-08 Reading Notes: Accelerated Expertise

• reading

2021-08-21 Trading Functionality For Time

• meta_programming
• product_development

2021-08-17 Screenwriting and Software Development

• meta_programming
• writing

2021-08-15 The Hidden Cost of Heroics

• meta_programming
• management
• organisations
• work_culture
• product_development

2021-08-10 Reuse Begets Coupling

• programming

2021-07-31 Bayes Rule in Odds Form

• statistics

2021-07-26 Problem, Learning, and Information

• learning

2021-07-21 Build vs. Buy

• learning
• management
• meta_programming
• design

2021-06-20 Guess ≠ Prediction ≠ Bet

• life

2021-02-02 Survival Analysis For Customer Retention

• statistics
• maths

2019-06-22 Essay Recommendation: On Having Enough Socks

• life
• programming

2019-06-18 Centered Cursor Mode in Vanilla Emacs

• emacs

2019-06-14 Emacs Calc – Evaluate Expression For Multiple Values

• programming
• maths
• emacs

2019-06-04 Standard Exception Hierarchy in .NET Core

• programming
• dotnet

2019-05-15 .NET on Non-Windows Platforms: A Brief History

• programming
• dotnet

2018-10-17 Code Review Checklist, Second Edition

• programming
• meta_programming

2018-06-03 Debugging Common Lisp in Slime

• lisp

2018-05-29 Purely Functional AVL Trees in Common Lisp

• lisp
• computing_science
• programming

2018-05-25 Technical Writing: Learning from Kernighan

• writing
• programming

2018-05-15 Update Bound Data Without Replacing It in D3

• programming
• javascript

2018-04-20 Intuition around NP-Hard and NP-Complete

• computing_science
• notes

2018-04-08 The Expressive Ada 2012 Challenge

• ada
• programming

2018-03-30 Matrix Is Everything I Want IRC To Be

• foss
• meta_programming

2018-03-14 Computing Science Dictionary

• programming

2018-03-06 Blogging With R and ggplot2 in Org

• science
• meta
• programming

2018-03-05 Migrating Away From Use-Package

• emacs
• lisp

2018-03-05 Top-down vs Bottom-up Programming

• programming
• meta_programming

2018-03-03 Swedish Colemak Hack

• life

2018-03-01 A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers

• haskell

2018-02-28 Emacs Magic: Simple Pastebin

• emacs
• lisp
• programming

2018-02-12 Ceasing Short-Lived Maintenance of Emacs Versor

• emacs

2018-02-02 Withdrawn: False Alarm About the TP300LA

• tp300la

2018-01-25 Asus TP300LA After Three Years: Battery Trouble

• tp300la

2018-01-17 Grep, sed and awk – The Right Tool For The Job

• unix
• programming
• awk

2018-01-16 The AWK State Machine Parser Pattern

• programming
• awk
• unix

2018-01-09 Pet Peeve: Tea, Tannins and Strength

• petpeeves

2018-01-02 Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform

• emacs

2017-12-22 Reading Notes: Understanding Nginx Location Selection

• sysadmin

2017-12-05 Variable Width Unicode Fallback Fonts in Emacs

• emacs
• typography

2017-11-30 Reasons To Like Stockholm: Water

• photography
• life

2017-11-29 Emacs Calendar with Fixed Width Font

• emacs

2017-11-24 Touchpad Pointer Speed in Xorg on Debian Linux

• unix

2017-11-20 Display Backlight Keys on TP300LA

• tp300la
• unix

2017-11-19 Emacs for Humans: Glossary

• emacs

2017-11-17 New and Improved: Two-Wrongs Now Powered By Org Mode

• meta
• emacs

2017-08-16 Migrating From iptables To nftables – Link Collection

• security

2017-07-12 Temporarily Disabling iptables

• security

2017-07-09 Passwordless sudo

• security
• sysadmin
• notes

2017-06-20 On Competing with C Using Haskell

• programming
• haskell

2017-06-08 Sensor and Controller Chip in “Roxcore 720p” Action Camera

• life
• photography

2017-05-21 Extendable Data in Haskell (part 2)

• haskell
• programming

2017-05-08 Dynamic Dispatch in Haskell, or: How Can I Make My Code Extendable?

• programming
• haskell

2017-04-13 Bayesian Statistics

• maths
• life

2017-04-12 Pairing Debian Laptop with Bluetooth Headphones

• life
• tp300la
• notes

2017-03-31 Reading Notes: Guide for Ravenscar in High Integrity Systems

• ada
• programming

2017-03-24 Securing a Debian Laptop with a Firewall

• security

2017-03-23 Secure DNS on Laptop with Debian

• security

2017-03-10 Selective Delays in SPARK and Ravenscar

• programming
• ada

2017-03-08 Unicode Strings in Ada 2012

• programming
• ada

2017-02-22 Timeout Blocking Requests in Ada

• ada
• programming

2017-02-13 Guessing Game: Ada Style!

• programming
• ada

2017-02-01 Intuition for Time Complexity of Algorithms

• programming

2016-12-19 Basic Firewall Configuration (iptables)

• notes
• security
• sysadmin

2016-12-18 Basic Computer Security: Things I Want to Explore

• security
• life
• sysadmin
• notes

2016-12-06 My Experience Using Yesod for a “Quick Hack”

• haskell
• programming

2016-10-25 Current Email Solution: gpg-agent, cron, OfflineIMAP, Notmuch, Alot, Vim and msmtp

2016-10-11 Rethinking Text Input on Touch Screens

• technology

2016-10-08 Pomohoro: Combine the Pomodoro Technique with hledger and Timeclock for Productivity

• life
• haskell
• programming

2016-09-21 Fallback Font, Good Fonts and a General Font Recommendation

• meta
• typography

2016-09-19 Fake Bold Small Caps in XeLaTeX with Fontspec

• notes
• typography

2016-09-02 Connecting to KTH Eduroam on Debian Stretch

• software_problems
• notes

2016-08-18 Why Cyclists Use Public Roads

• cycling

2016-08-13 Starting to Commute by Bicycle

• life
• cycling

2016-07-27 rtorrent missing from Homebrew on El Capitan

• notes
• software_problems

2016-07-20 Gmail Passwords Trusted, Yet Not Trusted

• security

2016-06-19 The Weekly Pure Bullet Journal

• life

2016-06-17 rsync.net

• sysadmin

2016-06-13 Is Learning Shorthand for Personal Note-taking Worth It?

• life
• shorthand

2016-05-29 Learning to Say No to Myself

• life

2016-05-21 Systemet i Melins system

• shorthand
• swedish

2016-05-20 A Checklist for Renewing GPG Subkeys

• sysadmin

2016-05-18 Melins system, övning och demonstration

• life
• swedish
• shorthand

2016-05-17 Why I’m Learning Shorthand

• swedish
• life
• shorthand

2016-05-09 A Maze of Storage Cages

• design

2016-05-03 The Bug in the Physical Building

• programming

2016-01-04 Parser Combinators: Parsing for Haskell Beginners

• haskell

2015-12-20 Using withPtr From inline-c in Haskell

• haskell
• c
• programming

2015-09-17 Darkroom Chemistry and Photograms

• photography

2015-09-16 Bubble Sort: Not Even Once

• programming

2015-09-11 On Escape Meta Alt Control Shift

• vim
• emacs

2015-09-06 The Joy of Manipulation

• photography
• life

2015-08-30 A Haskell Time Library Tutorial

• haskell
• programming

2015-08-27 The Touchpad On the Asus TP300LA

• tp300la

2015-08-25 Redirect Every Subdomain to the Same Subdomain on a Different Host with Nginx

• sysadmin
• web

2015-08-24 Static Generation with Haskell

• haskell
• programming
• web

2015-08-23 Statically Generated Blog

• meta
• haskell
• programming
• web

2015-08-05 The Case for Controlled Side Effects

• haskell
• programming

2015-07-02 The Mystery of the Deterministic Super Shotgun

• programming
• c

2015-07-01 Web Scraping with Lenses

• haskell
• programming
• web

2015-06-21 How Laziness Works

• programming
• haskell

2015-06-10 Developing B&W Film at Home

• photography

2015-05-20 IMAP/SMTP port numbers for Google mail

• notes
• sysadmin

2015-03-27 Monospaced Code Formatting in Skype

• software_problems

2015-03-06 Parser Combinators

• programming

2015-02-27 RecordMyDesktop Videos Going out of Sync

• software_problems

2015-02-18 Does My DSLR Have Dead Pixels?

• photography

2015-02-14 Fast SQL for Inheritance in a Django Hierarchy

• programming
• web

2015-02-10 Documentation: Reference Manual vs. Cookbook

• programming
• meta_programming

2015-02-06 Why Web Apps Disappoint Me

• programming
• web

2015-01-31 The Case for Shooting in Manual Mode

• photography

2015-01-27 How Much Does an Experienced Programmer Use Google

• programming
• meta_programming

2015-01-17 Painting with Light

• photography

2015-01-01 The “What Are Monads?” Fallacy

• programming
• haskell

2014-12-27 A Year of Baduk

• baduk
• life

2014-12-22 An Update a Week Keeps the Hackers Away

• sysadmin

2014-12-21 Debian Linux On the Asus TP300LA, Bad News #1

• tp300la

2014-12-19 Move Translations Between Django Apps

• programming
• web

2014-12-16 Text Selection Behaves as Swipe in WeeChat

• software_problems

2014-12-12 Reasons to Know Vim – It’s Similar to ed

• vim

2014-12-09 Debian Linux On My Asus Transformer Book Flip (TP300LA)

• tp300la
• life

2014-12-08 Myth of the Day: Functional Programmers Don’t Use Loops

• programming

2014-12-05 Discoverability of Functions in Functional Languages

• programming
• meta_programming

2014-11-27 Resize Video While Keeping Quality High with FFmpeg

• software_problems

2014-11-14 What Optimisations Are Not

• programming

2014-11-12 Why Code Review Matters: Suble (Often Non-Breaking) Bugs

• programming
• meta_programming

2014-11-10 Custom Surrounding Text with surround.vim

• vim

2014-11-06 Draw a Tree Structure With Only CSS

• web

2014-11-04 Say What You Mean, Not What Happens to Work

• programming
• meta_programming

2014-10-31 Email Quoting with Vim Visual Block Mode

• vim

2014-10-29 Calculator in Spotlight Not Doing Simple Arithmetic?

• software_problems

2014-10-27 Crash-Only Software on the Desktop, Please

• programming