Eduardo Lavaque's Blog

— May 18

On modern writing, journalism, gatekeeping, and excellence

Thoughts on quality, prompted by a veteran PC gaming blogger's work

— Mar 08

Lessons from working at Insert Startup Here (part two)

Career lessons from working at a different unidentified startup than the first one.

— Mar 08

Lessons from working at Insert Startup Here (part one)

Career lessons from working at an unidentified startup.

— Feb 26

Semantic query in 1.7 million SEC 8-K forms

Challenge: Find all the forms relevant to a linguistically ambiguous search query (although semantically clear), and interpret the data within.

— Feb 01

Switched to OrbStack from Docker Desktop

Docker Desktop is not a good piece of software, OrbStack is.

— Feb 01

Switched to DBeaver from DataGrip

DBeaver offers a better experience than DataGrip.

— Feb 01

The next 10 years of software development

"When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it."

— Dec 31

On SOLID

And a more workable alternative, Data-Oriented Design.

— Dec 20

The Luddite Gambit

Programming without the usual modern aides, an experiment.

— Oct 31

LLMs will not replace programmers

Before shit goes down, I thought it'd be good to make my opinion clear, and on public record.

— Oct 21

Programming role models

Until recently programmers didn't have public role models to look up to, now they do.

— Oct 13

Indie social networking service

What if the small web could discover itself?

— Jul 13

When in doubt: Steps 1, 2, 3

How I solve procrastination quite effectively and simply.

— Jul 10

On my blog vs social media

Thoughts regarding posting on my blog vs on social media.

— Jul 10

Deeply creative life

It's a nice thought. And it's on the top of my life goals.

— Jul 03

Productivity: the basics get you 80%

Productivity is often overcomplicated, it doesn't have to be.

— Jul 03

Multiple screens is worse than one screen

Is the idea of having multiple screens propaganda from big monitor?

— May 24

Premature optimization is the root of all evil, is bunk

Talking about how far the pendulum swung in Knuth's direction.

— May 23

Learning framework for dummies

You don't need a textbook or a roadmap or a teacher, you need a framework and a mindset.

— Apr 06

Your hedge against AI as a programmer

I see there's three primary paths to not be made obsolete by AI.

— Mar 07

I reviewed my code from my first job in 2015

The good, the bad, and the ugly. Reviewing my first professional code, from 10 years ago.

— Oct 23

Soft-wrapping a Piece Table to draw with Raylib, in Odin

How to implement a Piece Table with text wrapping, in order to turn an array of memory into a softly-wrapped text.

— Jul 29

Straightforward Programming (by Hasen Judi)

Quick thoughts on the Straightforward Programming Manifesto by Hasen Judi.

— Jul 29

The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern for LLMs

A full conceptual guide explaining what RAG is, how it's useful, and how to implement it without frameworks.

— Jul 27

A workable definition of simple for programming

Many definitions of "simple" are thrown around, but can they be applied to programming to produce better code?

— Jul 25

Clean Code(tm), SOLID, OOP, and Gangs of Four are not simple, by definition

By definition all these concepts in the OOP world from the 90s and early 2000s are more complex than simple.

— Jul 25

Essential and Accidental complexity, and performance

The two different kinds of complexity, Essential and Accidental, a fundamental part of becoming a better programmer.

— Jul 18

Learnings from Gadget Software

I left Gadget Software, a bespoke software agency I contributed to for 2 years, I write down my learnings.

— Jul 06

Drawing text on a window with Odin - Part 1: GLFW

How to open a window with GLFW in Odin.

— Jun 30

The pleasure of writing Clean OOP code /s

A sarcastic write-up on how wonderful OOP code is. I was just venting OK? I was frustrated at work.

— Jun 30

I've removed AI from my workflow

Using AI made me dumber, and doesn't make me proud of the output.

— Jun 20

My largest regret

"I worked too much" is a common regret on elder's deathbeds, but what about "I worked too little"?

— May 02

The only way forward for developers

Can you deliver pure value, no fluff, producing real business value? Innovating solutions that AI hasn't heard of?

— Dec 03

Python project setup

Using pip-tools and makefiles to optimize my Python flow.

— Dec 02

Using pyenv on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 22.04

— Dec 01

Basic security in Python Litestar projects (bonus HTMX CSRF config)

Getting CSRF, CORS, and allowed hosts working with Python Litestar projects, plus CSRF setup for HTMX.

— Nov 27

Shallow thoughts are cheaper for experts

— Aug 27

Throw early for programmer errors

— Aug 07

Svelte v4 in Django using Webpack

— Aug 02

Twitter 3-legged OAuth with Django using Tweepy, for Twitter bots

— Jun 17

HTMX kills most single page applications

— Jun 16

Book Summary: Don't Make Me Think Revisited A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability by Steve Krug

— Dec 26

Adding TailwindCSS to Svelte components in a Django app

— Dec 22

Using Svelte components in a Django app

— Jun 29

Managing sync state

— Jun 27

Tailwind, using grid-cols-12 instead of mx-auto

— Mar 20

Generating a Swagger file with ASP.Net Core and generating API code for Angular

— Feb 02

Kubernetes RabbitMQ Certificate Revocation List

— Apr 06

Devilboxを使ってローカルのWordPressサイトの最初のセットアップしよ

— Sep 10

Exiting early, cognitive load

— Sep 01

Assigning variables, cognitive load

— Aug 27

Git config

— Mar 03

On Adblockers

— Feb 19

New website

— Jun 17

How to run a Promises array in a series

— Apr 09

File navigation in Vim (my way)

— Jun 18

Two months of OpenBSD

— Apr 30

Experience upgrading OpenBSD to 5.7

— Apr 29

Indentation and hooks in Emacs

— Apr 19

My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions

— Apr 18

December 2014 to April 2015

— Dec 08

Respect, for respect is acknowledgement, and acknowledgement is a right

— Dec 07

Figuring out when you installed Arch Linux

— Nov 21

Minimal amount of fonts in Arch Linux

— Oct 05

Get it together Linux users/devs!

— Sep 10

The bleeding terminal background inside Vim + Tmux problem

— Sep 10

Getting used to software updates

— Aug 24

Barebones file navigation in Vim

— Aug 21

Navigating in the dark

— Aug 09

Knowing something but not registering it

— Aug 08

A week with Emacs

— Jul 20

A small project is not the same as a big project

— Jul 14

A projects page!

— Jun 19

Several VLC interfaces

— Jun 18

Enable `pass` auto-completion in Zsh

— Jun 14

Acknowledgements in communication

— Jun 09

Arch Linux font tip(s)

— Jun 08

My slow switch to Emacs

— Jun 07

New blog!

— May 31

My take on Vim vs. Emacs

— May 29

You need to understand JavaScript callbacks

— May 23

Neat trick for Vim keybindings

— May 21

Just switch to UTC

— May 14

My experience with the BSPWM and Sxhkd

— May 08

Write down the day ahead of you

— Apr 30

What the gut feeling is for me

— Apr 30

A technique to remember small stuff

— Apr 27

Out of sight is not out of mind

— Apr 17

Installing Arch Linux on a Dell Vostro 1500

— Apr 12

Text editor categories

— Apr 12

My experience with SolydXK (X)

— Apr 06

Disconnecting from the DocPad community

— Apr 05

Read stuff you have read before

— Feb 22

Real science, not bullshit

— Feb 19

My explanation of The Zone

— Feb 04

The world of Window Managers

— Jan 15

My trip to Switzerland, part 1, getting there

— Dec 13

A love letter to Arch Linux

— Nov 13

Switching from Zsh to fish

— Nov 07

Light Table, the new Emacs

— Oct 23

Open source games without going poor