(I started this post about halfway through the Year of New Programming Languages, and wrapped it up in December.)

At the midway point I was most excited by Common Lisp, but with doubts I'd be using it for anything real. By the end of the year my favorite new ...

Learning a new programming language each month this year was an ambitious goal. I didn't quite make it -- other things got in the way. I did manage to dip my toes into some interesting languages, learn some new things, and find a couple of candidates for diving deeper into ...

I've had a couple of friends ask me if there's any way I could read family photos off a dying hard drive. Obviously, the best way to do this is to have a backup: then you can throw out the hard drive (use an electronics recycler) and restore ...

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 ...