Created 10 October 2002, last updated 20 July 2011

These are longer pieces of writing ("essays" is too stuffy, "articles" too topical and flighty).

• Software Topics:
  • Asserts
  • Interfaces
  • Erroneously empty code paths
  • Log message style guide
  • Stringification
  • Deleting code
  • Fix error handling first
  • Hex words and Hex color words
  • Engineers are people
  • Exceptions vs. status returns
  • Exceptions in the rainforest
  • Standards misconceptions
  • Metadata is nothing new
  • Destructors instead of catches
  • Python parsing tools
  • A quest for pythonic interfaces
  • How C trace functions really work
  • Subversion on Windows quick start
  • Subversion branching quick start
  • Bare-bones basic Mercurial for Subversion users
  • Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots
  • Programming madlibs
  • About WHOA
  • Usability testing on the cheap
  • Painless bug triaging
  • Own your data: ad-hoc representations
  • Presentation tips: entertain, educate, practice
  • Software I use
• Presentations:
  • A Whirlwind Excursion through Python C Extensions
  • DevDays Whirlwind Python
  • Python-Aware Python
  • Getting Started Testing your Python
• Hobby Topics:
  • How to make business card cubes
  • How to make coffee stirrer stars
  • How to make a pop-up scene
  • Lattice drawings
• Personal Topics:
  • Wilma Hemenway Batchelder, 1907–1999
  • A good thing about autism
  • My boys' robot movie
  • Parents' choices
  • Victoria Marcus Olds, 1911–2008