Zenhack.net

Hello, World!

Welcome to my home on the web. I'm Ian Denhardt, a software developer living in the Boston area. I pay the bills doing contract work, and spend what time I can working on Free and Open Source software (see projects).

This site is my personal blog. there's no official theme or topic, but mostly I write about software.

• 08 Mar 2023 Tempest Status Update (March 2023)
• 04 Feb 2023 Tempest Status Update (February 2023)
• 06 Jan 2023 Introducing Tempest
• 16 Jan 2022 Plug for Helianthia
• 30 Jul 2021 New Haskell Cap'n Proto Release, Reworked APIs
• 05 Feb 2021 A Pair of Haskell Libraries
• 25 Jun 2019 A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language.
• 30 Jan 2019 Cap'N Proto RPC Support For Haskell
• 26 Aug 2018 Haskell Implementation of Cap'N Proto
• 14 Jul 2018 Three Funerals In The Name Of Clarity (Part 3: Systems)
• 29 Mar 2018 Three Funerals In The Name Of Clarity (Part 2: Object Oriented)
• 27 Feb 2018 Three Funerals In The Name Of Clarity (Part 1: Functional)
• 19 Feb 2017 Kerckhoffs's Principle and Machine Learning
• 08 Jan 2017 Public Service Announcement: IRC Is Not A Synchronous Medium
• 05 Jan 2017 Fun With CI
• 25 Dec 2016 Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language
• 11 Dec 2016 On Python
• 04 Dec 2016 Can Inexpressive Tools Keep Us Honest?
• 20 Nov 2016 A memory layout DSL
• 30 Oct 2016 Focus
• 18 Sep 2016 Shipping things -- For Real This Time
• 11 Sep 2016 Shipping Things
• 04 Sep 2016 The Trouble With Library Side Projects
• 04 Sep 2016 NixOS Retrospective
• 07 Aug 2016 When Is Automation Not Worth It?
• 24 Jul 2016 Red-Black Trees
• 17 Jul 2016 Plug for EOMA
• 24 Jun 2016 More Usability Musings
• 19 Jun 2016 The Design of Extraordinary Things
• 29 May 2016 Sandstorm And The Social Web
• 15 May 2016 Making Iron Blogger Robust
• 07 May 2016 UI Design Should Not Be About Aesthetics
• 23 Apr 2016 Iron Blogger Updates
• 16 Apr 2016 Industrial Design
• 08 Apr 2016 More DST Bugs
• 26 Mar 2016 Test Code Is Still Code
• 13 Mar 2016 MBTA Token
• 06 Mar 2016 Papercuts: Haskell
• 28 Feb 2016 Legacy and Systemd
• 21 Feb 2016 WhenView
• 14 Feb 2016 Later Never Comes
• 07 Feb 2016 Lisp And C
• 31 Jan 2016 Composing Languages
• 24 Jan 2016 Reflections On NixOS
• 10 Jan 2016 Iron Blogger Reminder Emails
• 27 Dec 2015 SRI Update
• 20 Dec 2015 Subresource Integrity And Caching
• 06 Dec 2015 Status updates: Backup Tool And Iron Blogger
• 29 Nov 2015 Reminder Notifications
• 21 Nov 2015 Cross Compiling: Why Is This Hard? (Part 1)
• 19 Nov 2015 Iron Blogger Development Commitments
• 08 Nov 2015 RAR
• 01 Nov 2015 Update Re: Backups
• 25 Oct 2015 Too Many Links
• 18 Oct 2015 Hosting Options
• 11 Oct 2015 Just-In-Time Development
• 04 Oct 2015 Github And My People Skills
• 27 Sep 2015 Github Code Review Workflow
• 20 Sep 2015 Self Portrait
• 05 Sep 2015 python-gpgmime
• 29 Aug 2015 Writ
• 10 Aug 2015 Writer's Block
• 02 Aug 2015 C Is Not Portable Assembly
• 25 Jul 2015 Working Outside
• 19 Jul 2015 The Trouble With TextSecure
• 09 Jul 2015 How Not To Design A Package Manager
• 14 Jun 2015 Misgivings About Templating Engines
• 06 Jun 2015 Openshift, Bower and Dependency Bloat
• 24 May 2015 Iron Blogger 2 Is Getting Closer To Ready
• 02 May 2015 A Major Milestone for Iron Blogger 2
• 14 Mar 2015 Bottle
• 15 Feb 2015 Poses
• 08 Feb 2015 Stapler
• 25 Jan 2015 Iron Blogger 2 Status Update
• 10 Jan 2015 (A Crappy, Feature-Incomplete Version of) Iron Blogger 2 is Live!
• 28 Dec 2014 Iron Blogger 2 Status Update
• 13 Dec 2014 Jack-O-Santa
• 28 Nov 2014 A note about my git repos.
• 23 Nov 2014 Iron Blogger 2
• 09 Nov 2014 C-Ast
• 12 Oct 2014 This was going to be more serious...
• 05 Oct 2014 Turtlenecks
• 27 Sep 2014 I'll Blog Later
• 21 Sep 2014 More Stupid Drawings
• 10 Sep 2014 Stylus
• 07 Sep 2014 Pressure
• 24 Aug 2014 Pop Quiz
• 10 Aug 2014 Castle Grayskull, Eat Your Heart Out.
• 03 Aug 2014 Inking For Inkscape
• 27 Jul 2014 Blogging without internet is hard.
• 20 Jul 2014 Big Mouth
• 12 Jul 2014 D'oh
• 04 Jul 2014 Recursive Sketch
• 28 Jun 2014 When To Quit
• 17 Jun 2014 Maybe I'll Just Keep Drawing.
• 08 Jun 2014 I Don't Want To Write A Blog Post Today.
• 31 May 2014 A Few Hacks
• 25 May 2014 ZLisp: Status Update
• 16 May 2014 Reflections On A Train
• 11 May 2014 traaaaaaain
• 03 May 2014 Learning To Focus
• 27 Apr 2014 Veg-Hacking
• 19 Apr 2014 I Broke It
• 12 Apr 2014 Life Without Internal Storage: Status Update
• 06 Feb 2014 Life Without Internal Storage
• 28 Nov 2013 Mobile-Friendly Site Design Made Easy
• 04 Nov 2013 Know thy ABI - Part 2
• 01 Oct 2013 Know thy ABI - Part 1
• 04 Sep 2013 First Class Functions in C - Because That's Totally a Good Idea.