A few years ago, I wrote Makefiles are Software Too, which laid out some "generic requirements" for any build scripts (Make, Ant, Scons, Fabric, etc) that you're writing. I still think those are important, but over the past (nearly) four years I've worked with more systems, and I ...

Last month I wrote a prototype markdown processor as part of learning the Icon programming language. This month I'm rewriting it as part of learning Go, but this time with the intention of maintaining the tool over the long term.

As mentioned in the previous article, "gebildet" is intended ...

I created a quick & dirty admin page for a flask-based website I'm working on, and I had to add HTTP authentication support for it. Doing this is easy.

In the app, I add:

import auth

# ...

@app.route('/admin/', methods=['GET'])
@auth.requires_auth
def admin_page():
    # ... code to fetch info from ...

(Background: 12 Projects in 2013)

I wrote a bit about the general experience of programming in Icon a couple of weeks ago. This post is a brief post-mortem about a project that I tried to build using Icon. I'm not planning on releasing the source, because I don't ...

(Background: 12 New Languages in 2013)

Icon is a cool little programming language. It's worth learning, even if it isn't practical for daily use.

Pros:

• Syntax is similar to C, which makes it easy to learn.
• A handful of publication-quality Icon books (now out of print) are available ...