Observations and Ideas

Stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere.


Pile o’ stuff

Wow. It’s been a crazy two months. We’ve been going strong, if silent, and overall things have been going swimmingly. Some highlights: The mailing lists finally got busy (yay!), and to help sort through some of our growing pains we put together a document to help early adopters and contributors […]


For the Good of the Many

Last time I wrote about our UTF-8 escaping machinery. It’s not that involved, but it’s something critical to get Right(tm) for proper unicode support. It’s also something that took me far too much time to complete, being something that nearly all modern data handling programs need to do. Let’s all […]