2025

• Don't Walk with Rocks in Your Shoes

  A better title would have been Book Review: Efficient Linux at the Command Line.

• The Efficiency of Vim

  How Vim eased my pain at the text editor. Some history on Vim and its predecessors.

• The Soul of Craftsmanship

  Will AI replace craftsmanship? A reflection of my journey from welding to programming and the meaning of work in the AI age.

• Pivot Tables

  Some thoughts on pivot tables (the Excel kind) and an exploration of their use in SQLite.

• Ambiguous Groups

  I discover a troublesome issue with some SQL vendors not enforcing well-defined behavior in group by statements.