So, I got an interesting spam comment on my post today: “It gets even crazier when you actually benchmark the two languages only to discover in some real-world cases, PHP outperforms C#.” I triple dare you to show code examples so we can explain why you’re wrong. Quadruple dare Jesus christ, how did you think […]

For the last 15 years or so, my favorite language has been C#, despite using mostly PHP in my workplace since 2012. Over the years, I’ve written a lot of side-projects in C#, and it’s been great, for the most part. Until I learned Assembly… last year. When I learned Assembly, I think I broke […]

So, I know I kinda promised a short story in my last post … but I was going to retheme this site first. And, well, I ran into some atrocious patterns trying to make the theme do what I want. I just wanted to share this, because I seriously went WTAF. Some time ago, people […]

You may (or may not) have noticed I haven’t posted in a while, but the reality is that I have over a hundred ready to publish posts. So, why haven’t I posted them? The answer is pretty simple: I wanted to better understand what I write about and how I can be more focused. It […]

I occasionally write utilities for my computer that make my life a bit easier. This morning I was looking for a way to detect whether the monitor was turned off on my Linux laptop. The best advice I came across was using xset -q and parsing the following section: Wait, what? After diving into some […]

Hello. I have a single thing I want to say and see if Jesse sees this: JITM