This is the personal blog of Paul Boyd, where I mostly write about programming.

• At <company>, we are family
• Github Copilot: A Preview of the Future
• The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux VM
• Designing Good Interfaces
• Anatomy of a Useless Program
• Back to basics with the Apple II
• The day I wiped a production database table
• The regex [,-.]
• The Cargo Cult of Good Code
• Let's build a virtual machine
• You're not a 10x programmer
• Text Encoding: The Thing You Were Trying to Avoid
• A simple case for unit tests
• An experiment on code structure - Part 2
• How Not to Store Passwords
• An experiment on code structure
• Kinda okay generated text
• Markov Chains