Paul Smith

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Paul Smith writes about software engineering, version control, programming tools, and civic technology.

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Introducing jjq, a local merge queue for jj #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #OpenSource
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Feb 24, 2026
My first contribution to the jj project #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #Programming
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Jan 23, 2026
Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns #Design #RetroTech #PixelArt
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Sep 3, 2025
Let `jj absorb` help you keep a clean commit history #SoftwareEngineering #Git #Programming
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Aug 20, 2025
Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #DevTools
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Jan 17, 2025
The 10 Year Anniversary of the HealthCare.gov Rescue #Tech #Software #CivicTech
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Oct 18, 2023
Oppenheimer #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #CivicTech
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Jul 25, 2023
Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer #OpenSource #Networking #Tech
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Jul 3, 2018
2016, my year in review #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Programming
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Jan 2, 2017
Looking at your program's structure in Go 1.7 #GoLang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 16, 2016
Modifying a Go slice in-place during iteration #GoLang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Jul 26, 2016
A simple way to limit the number of simultaneous clients of a Go net/http server #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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Apr 13, 2016
The Bloomingdale Trail #SoftwareEngineering #CivicTech #UrbanPlanning
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Jun 5, 2015
Chicago wards & precincts shapefiles in 2015 #CivicTech #Data #GIS
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Feb 27, 2015
How to get started with the LLVM C API #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #LLVM
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Jan 20, 2015
T-shirt retirement #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Tech
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Jul 28, 2014
quickserver #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Tech
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Jun 19, 2014
Things of recent interest #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Tech
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May 21, 2014
Fixing healthcare.gov #SoftwareEngineering #CivicTech #Programming
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Mar 2, 2014
Helping healthcare.gov #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #OpenSource
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Oct 31, 2013