I found out about the “Paged Out!” Magazine, which publishes one-page articles about programming and computing. I absolutely LOVE this pagedout.institute

Seeing if I can put together a tiny macro pad to live in my work’s office - I miss my macros when I’m not working from home! First steps - a 3D-printed plate with hardwired Gateron Browns (with jumpers I now realise I’ve made far too long)…

New Twilight Sad, wooo! Fantastic start, can't wait for more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zu...

My Jujutsu problems were caused by .gitignore being case-sensitive. Turns out I've been relying on case-insensitivity for a long time - macOS and Windows will do that to you ;) Patched in case-insensitivity, and now Git and Jujutsu agree with each other: github.com/AaronC81/jj/...

I’ve landed a little warning improvement in this release! Gleam was a lovely codebase and community to contribute to - high hopes for where this language goes in the future

What if we were 3D printing decades ago? Downloading STLs over dial-up? I mocked up Cura for Windows 95

After a few days - this works alright! Only issue is there's some disagreement between Git and Jujutsu about a few files from LFS - Git is tracking them, but Jujutsu thinks they're new. If I delete them, Git sees the repo as dirty, but Jujutsu is happy and works a treat.

Having a play with Jujutsu VCS: jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/ You can move back to a previous commit and edit it, and all the later commits rebase automatically… coming from Git, that feels MAGIC

I don’t know how long this has existed, but I’ve never spotted it before… Apple Photos smooshing together geotagging and event listings to give concert photos an artist tag - which you can search by! - is such a damn clever feature

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

This looks really promising - I’ve read a lot of praise for uv in Python-land, so having something similar on the horizon for Ruby is exciting andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

Echo Point Nova is one of my favourite recent indie games, a super fast movement-shooter, and the first game in a while I’ve 100% completed …and it just got an entire second map as a free update. Time to 100% complete this too 😁

I enjoy using keyword-argument-heavy languages, and IMO an underappreciated feature is letting arguments have different external vs internal names. An example in Swift - variables named “of” and “with” would be unintuitive inside the function body, but read naturally when calling

I suddenly remembered the Parallax Propeller - a microcontroller with a custom architecture and language, which I saw mentioned on Arduino forums back in the day and thought looked super cool. Turns out they released a second generation a few years ago! Awesome… www.parallax.com/propeller-2/

I've been playing with Gleam, a little compiled language targeting BEAM (Erlang's runtime) and JS. I like a lot of its ideas, it's the closest I've felt to writing "garbage-collected Rust". My favourite trick is the `use` keyword, which is like a generalisation of JS' async/await transform:

New article! Ruby's blocks share many similarities with the anonymous functions found in other languages - but how are they different? The unique control-flow features of blocks make them perfectly suited to a wide range of applications in Ruby. aaronc.cc/2025/07/07/r...

I want to start Posting More - ideally about programming, electronics, and the like. But instead, since we’re half-way through the year, I’ll kick off with a short thread about some music released this year which I’ve really enjoyed. Hopefully, you might enjoy some of it too 🎶🧵

This is really exciting! Standardised RBS syntax + Sorbet's developer ergonomics = a big win for Ruby static typing

My first article of the year - defmt has been a slick improvement to my embedded development experience! aaronc.cc/2025/02/20/d...