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.

Blog Posts

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07 May 2023 Tempest Status Update (May 2023)
08 Apr 2023 Tempest Status Update (April 2023)
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.