About

Software engineer, blogger, and jaw expansion advocate.

Software

• Edita

  A code editor designed around ergonomics and combining traditional text editing with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Originally intended to be a commercial product, Edita is now mostly a personal project.

• CodePatterns

  A syntax for find & replace that supports arbitrary combinations of plain text, regular expressions, and Tree-sitter queries.

YouTube

I started a speedrun of all the projects in Jennifer Dewalt’s “180 sites in 180 days”. (After a few epidodes the projects became too complex to complete in a single sitting.)

Writing

Programming & Tech

• The Next Evolution in Frontend Frameworks
  12 September 2023
• Writing Algorithms Under Pressure
  16 April 2023
• Embrace the Chaos
  29 January 2023
• Most Open-Source Projects' Codebases are Impossible for Outsiders to Read
  21 September 2022
• Thoughts on AGI
  10 July 2022
• What Makes a Good Programming Book?
  9 July 2022
• Treefrog: a Tool for Writing Code
  22 December 2021

Devlog

• Splitting a Git commit into multiple commits
  14 March 2024
• Reporting and recording with plaintext and SvelteKit
  12 February 2024
• Combinations in JavaScript
  2 December 2023
• The time I broke the rules on Chess.com
  1 December 2023
• Simple single-process file locking/queueing in Node
  25 November 2023
• Complete Linux-compatible streaming setup for under £1k
  23 November 2023
• Advantages of writing your own date & time wrapper classes
  4 July 2023
• Copying command output to the clipboard on Linux
  30 June 2023
• When to use !important in CSS
  28 June 2023
• Generating Tree-sitter and Grammar Wasm Binaries with Emscripten
  25 June 2023
• Svelte Component Organisation
  23 June 2023
• Spacer elements
  23 October 2022

CV

Web / PDF.

Contact

Email: gus@gushogg-blake.com.