DaFoster

My name is David Foster. Check out the cool software I’ve written!

My articles may also be of interest:

Featured Articles ⭐

• Feb 16, 2021 » Building web apps with Vue and Django - The Ultimate Guide
• Nov 24, 2018 » Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode?
• Mar 25, 2017 » How to Design Large Programs with Abstraction and Encapsulation
• Sep 13, 2015 » State of the Union in Programming Languages (2015)
• Dec 20, 2014 » Spectrum of Languages by Hardware Distance
• May 11, 2013 » Programming for Perfectionists (P4P): A Book Outline
• Apr 21, 2013 » Exploring Onionland: The Tor .onion Darknet
• Feb 20, 2013 » Visual Guide to Programming Language Properties
• Jan 15, 2013 » Things I Wish I Knew Before Working in Industry ✚
• Jan 08, 2013 » Programming is Fun. But What Matters is Solving a Real Problem.

Recent Articles

• Feb 22, 2023 » Debugging bash scripts with the bashdb debugger
• Jul 10, 2022 » Crystal Web Archiver 1.3.0b Released!
• Jul 07, 2022 » CompressedTextField for Django & MySQL is released!
• May 02, 2021 » Interview with David Foster
• Mar 23, 2021 » Crystal Web Archiver 1.1.0b Released!
• Mar 16, 2021 » You might not need centralized continuous integration
• Mar 09, 2021 » Reliable rendering of web pages that view concurrently modified data
• Mar 02, 2021 » Real-time updates in Django with WebSockets, Channels, and pub-sub
• Feb 16, 2021 » Building web apps with Vue and Django - The Ultimate Guide ⭐
• Feb 09, 2021 » Database clamps: Deterministic performance tests for database-dependent code

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Featured Projects ⭐

Crystal Web Archiver

Downloads websites in an archival-friendly format.

CompressedTextField for Django and MySQL

A large text field, stored compressed in the database, for Django and MySQL.

RDiscount

Converts Markdown text to HTML, in Ruby. Includes many useful Markdown extensions.

TypedDict

Python typechecker support for recognizing structured dictionaries with specific named keys mapped to specific value types. Ubiquitous in JSON.

Miscellaneous

Much information related to my activities prior to 2010 can also be found on my old site.