skip’s house

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9 + 10

Trading 1.4ms for sharper fonts and better colors 

Chroma subsampling is fun.

macOS font rendering 

Miscellaneous notes and details on how Apple’s desktop operating system gets those letters to your eyeballs.

An overview of Nix in practice ★

An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.

Arc, and what it tells us about the web 

iPhone 14 Pro subtleties 

A few scattered thoughts on the new iPhone after about a week of use.

Learn some basic Rust by trying to cache with a HashMap ★

As a Rust novice gradually familiarizing myself with the borrow checker, I wanted to write about a recent hurdle I encountered. I feel like this case study is particularly realistic and could be illuminating for beginners.

After 4 weeks with the Apple M1 

Upgrading to an SSD for the first time 

Understanding a simple string algorithm in Haskell ★

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of a Haskell function.

Functionally chaotic 

Thoughts of nontrivial program design in pure, functional Scala.

6 years 

Self-reflection on writing software for a several years.

Setting up a Virtual Private Network