tommy montgomery / blargh

In which I chronicle the many ways to refactor a switch statement. And by many I mean two…

Firefox brilliantly handles underlining letters that descend below the baseline. But how do other browsers fare…

In the exciting world of nullable types, lifting rears its ugly head. But what is it? Is it some weird creature from the deep Lisp? Or is it a benign organism whose only purpose is to satisfy a language designer's nerdity? Follow me, and we'll see just how far down the rabbit hole goes...…

How to rockstar your way to success using nginx's echo module. And by rockstar I mean "create a site that shows an ip address." And by success I mean doing something that's already been done several times.…

NIH (not invented here) is a syndrome from which I suffer. Luckily, I'm pretty good about not suffering from it when somebody else is paying me to do something in a timely manner. But if I'm working on my own personal project, you can bet I will be inventing a universe before releasing something.…