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

• 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
• Feb 04, 2021 » Privacy Sandbox: Google's answer to privacy-conscious advertising
• Feb 02, 2021 » Tests as Policy Automation
• Jan 26, 2021 » Python's type checking renaissance
• Jan 20, 2021 » I no longer trust The Great Suspender

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Featured Projects ⭐

Crystal Web Archiver

Downloads websites in an archival-friendly format.

HandBrake Subtitles

Extends the popular HandBrake ripping and transcoding tool to enable processing subtitles from files, including the SSA subtitles found commonly in anime.

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.