Paul’s Weblog is a personal, tech-adjacent blog mixing software engineering insights, weeknotes, developer tips, and thoughtful cultural commentary. Short, witty posts covering tools, events, and reflections from life in tech.
113 articles from this blog
A guide to preparing for a 'skip level' interview with senior leadership, including a categorized list of strategic questions for engineers.
Explains the difference between base-10 (K, M, G, T) and base-2 (Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti) units in computing, crucial for memory and data rates.
A personal recap of attending and volunteering at the DevFestMN 2025 tech conference, covering talks on Web AI and hiring in the AI era.
A response to a blog post about refining AI-generated 'vibe code' through manual refactoring and cleanup.
A guide explaining a workaround method to rollback or downgrade a specific Homebrew package to a previous version.
A beginner's guide to tmux, covering installation, basic commands, key bindings, and configuration for terminal multiplexing.
Author reflects on completing the #100DaysToOffload challenge, writing 100 blog posts in a year, and shares key entries and tips.
A developer reimplements the Unsplash Source service using the Unsplash API and Val Town, sharing the technical process and code.
Introduces the !mdnio search bang for quickly accessing MDN web documentation via DuckDuckGo or Kagi.
Explores JWCC, a JSON extension adding comments and trailing commas, comparing it to JSON5, HuJSON, JSONC, and Hjson.
A review of Brian's book 'Approachable Open Source', highlighting its advice on contributing to open source beyond just writing code.
A first look at CodePen 2.0, a major upcoming upgrade featuring a web-based IDE, plugins, real-time collaboration, and deployments.
A developer shares their essential Bash script boilerplate preamble, explaining strict settings, debugging, and useful variables for robust scripting.
A response to an article about unwritten rules for terminal programs, adding the '--' option delimiter and recommending CLI design resources.
A developer shares a specific CSS Flexbox inconsistency between Firefox and Chrome, and the solution using flex: 1 and min-width: 0.
A summary of talks from DevFestMN 2024, covering tech debt, AI in interviews, on-device AI, and the UX of AI.
A personal discovery about the existence and adoption of 6GHz WiFi bands, part of the WiFi 6 standard and beyond.
The article discusses GitHub Gists' privacy options, arguing they lack a true private mode unlike repositories, and compares them to other services.
Explains the List-Unsubscribe-Post email header for one-click unsubscribes, its RFC specification, and implementation tips for compliance.
A response to Jason Fried's article advocating for 'Maximally Proud Version 1s' (MPV1s) over traditional MVPs in software product development.
