Jordan Sissel (semicomplete.com)

This year's been pretty good, but the last two months were pretty lame.

In the last six weeks, I found out Caramel has lymphoma, got unemployed, and had emergency surgery to remove my appendix on Christmas Day.  read more »

I never really liked C's assert() feature. If an assertion is violated, it'll tell you what assertion failed but completely lacks any context: example: example.c:9: main: Assertion `i == 3' failed. This is better: Assertion failed insist.c:7 in main(), insist(i == 3): Something went wrong, wanted i == 3, got 4 The main difference here is that there's context about what failed. A message for humans looking to debug this.  read more »