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Dave Gauer
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.
Latest Posts
Here's an essay I started last month and finally finished. I read something that helped me sort out what happened the last time I put my foot in my mouth online...
As I teased in the previous item, this update links to what basically amounts to a "mini-site" of four web pages and one software repo. This is exactly what it says in the title as well as my personal review of Snobol4 and related...
In the next couple days, I expect to be posting a link to a "mini-site" of content about a fun programming subject. With that upcoming example in mind, this seems like as good time as any to explain why this feed doesn't contain the full...
In revisiting Naur's paper, I had some additional thoughts about how it applies to our current era...
An extremely tiny family posting site (lets a handful of people post text and images and that's it!). Written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and SQLite. About 1K lines of source combined! Stupidly simple. The only interesting thing about it...
Hello! It feels like ages since my last update. This has been baking quite a while in the oven and it's a great relief (and also a little scary) to put it out into the world. You can see what it's about from the title...
I've finished a new tool to add to the site - I made this one to "do the counting" for my daily physical therapy exercises...
It came! I like it...
Hey RSS readers! Time for another RSS-only article. I really need to vent about this because two days later, it's still bothering me...
My first ever year wrap-up. Also, 2024 is happening, but not happening...
A short parable by Franz Kafka describes our crummy code? I think so and it feels good to escape this fate...
All of a sudden, I realized I never fully made the transition from Thunderbird to aerc for email and...I never will and...that's okay! If you're not sure if that's okay or not for *you*, maybe this page will be a comfort...
A UI programming "hack" in which your mileage varies and the dead return to extract vengeance upon the living.
A fable! And a drawing!
Why and how you should preserve your projects for your future self (and possibly other people too) to enjoy!