Posts by popularity

Posts by popularity; updated semi-regularly. Data from stats.arp242.net and collected since 28 May 2019.

• 11,242 Go is not an easy language
• 10,836 YAML: probably not so great after all
• 10,129 Statically compiling Go programs
• 5,805 Curl to shell isn’t so bad
• 5,332 s/bash/zsh/g
• 5,159 Scripting tmux
• 4,856 Go’s features of last resort
• 3,310 How to detect automatically generated emails
• 3,149 The web as a GUI toolkit
• 3,010 Stupid light software
• 2,588 The downsides of JSON for config files
• 2,343 An API is a user interface
• 2,053 Stallman isn't great, but not the devil
• 1,970 Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019
• 1,945 The Art of Unix Programming
• 1,872 Tired of Stack Overflow
• 1,769 Open source DIY ethics
• 1,535 Some zshrc tricks
• 1,309 Bitmasks for nicer APIs
• 1,253 Running Go CLI programs in the browser with WASM
• 1,095 Send to WhatsApp
• 1,075 Why GoatCounter ignores Do Not Track
• 1,066 Effective VimScript
• 1,014 Choosing a license for GoatCounter
• 970 Analytics on personal websites
• 900 Freedom is not simple
• 888 Experiences with email-based login
• 875 Flags are great for configuration
• 813 The shell scripting trap
• 765 Getting started with RimWorld modding on Linux
• 740 VimLog – a ChangeLog for Vim
• 602 Using flags for configuration in Go
• 522 Bookmarklets to deal with annoying designs
• 495 Why “rape games” are worse than violent games
• 484 It’s fine to be elitist, sometimes
• 457 PHP’s fopen() is broken
• 440 Testing isn’t everything
• 432 Go testing style guide
• 407 Storing files in .git
• 399 Better UX when reading from stdin
• 395 The Art of Unix Programming, reformatted
• 388 The problems with hard wrapping email body text
• 346 Good comments read well and are to the point
• 318 Let’s not be pedantic about “Open Source”
• 316 Easy means easy to debug
• 300 Downsides of working remotely
• 296 Why Hello CSS doesn’t use CSS variables
• 293 Vim myths
• 281 You (probably) don’t need Kubernetes
• 263 Anti-vaxers are not evil
• 247 Making find -exec faster
• 246 The value of negative arguments
• 232 Uninstalling Emacs with apt-get: lessons in interface design
• 229 On being the right size
• 214 Generate passwords from the commandline
• 202 I don’t like git, but I’m going to migrate my projects to it
• 197 The other kind of censorship
• 197 My first vimrc
• 193 Empathy is required for democracy
• 181 Source code shame
• 177 Learning a programming language
• 168 Why write?
• 164 Why isn’t Amazon.com signing their emails?
• 103 Creating temporary files in PHP
• 93 Digging for hosts on FreeBSD 10
• 91 Being right
• 91 arp242.net
• 85 Browsers and conflicts of interests
• 84 Minimal Apache configuration for subversion
• 74 Copyright, culture, and democracy
• 67 Why teach kids to program?
• 67 A primer on the str and bytes types in Python 3
• 66 arp242.net archive
• 59 Project status badges
• 51 Some thoughts on CDNs
• 47 uni WebAssembly demo
• 46 Make docker ps work on normal sized terminals
• 43 Security of Python’s pickle and marshal modules
• 35 Vested interest in mismanaging government
• 35 Running multiple services on one port with PF
• 34 Robots!
• 18 Intercept outgoing mails in Ruby on Rails
• 15 Online Unreal Tournament server browser with pcntl fork()