hello, I'm Alex Birdsall

I make music, cook food, and build websites and computer programs

html < thoughts > browser

M E T A B L A G

On that fractal triforce thing there2024-05-09

Rewriting a middleman site with gatsby2019-12-04

javascript

Why is date formatting so hard in vanilla JS?2024-05-08

emacs

Why emacs is worth the bother2019-12-01

testing

Zero-friction testing in rails2016-12-09

ruby

Building An Adequate Wedding Gallery2016-11-29

OSX < UNIX

Cron: Legacy2016-10-11

epistemology

What Does It Even Mean For The Media To Be Objective2016-10-03

zsh

Backticks Are Fantastic Because Typing Is The Worst2016-09-19

concurrency

Locks Are Some Shit2016-09-01

quotes

Berkely DB Design Lessons2016-08-31