Ben's code log
(a.k.a. "clog")
A stream of essays and a collection of my open source projects.
Projects
Jour
The simplest possible journal, just a Python script, that integrates well with your existing UNIX workflow.
Aurelius.co
A website dedicated to one of my favorite historical persons, Marcus Aurelius. Random quotes from his "Meditations" are displayed, the source code is on GitHub.
Articles
3 Tools I Use On Every Server
16 May 2017The first things I install when I start a fun new adventure.
A Perl Script to Tell You The Sunrise and Sunset
2 May 2017That's right, I can still do Perl.
Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil
17 April 2017Treat it as a type, like Nothing, not a value like null.
Pattern matching as a tool for refactoring
31 March 2017Pattern matching is useful even if you don't end up using `match` because it helps you reason about your code