My personal blog about software development and more.https://andrewthecoder.com/en-ushttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/ai-as-an-assistant/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/ai-as-an-assistant/A look at changing trends in AI and the job marketTue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/arc-0-9-1-immutable-http/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/arc-0-9-1-immutable-http/Request::withAttribute() and Response::with* make middleware safer and easier to reason about. Plus a note on PHP 8.5's clone-chain pitfall.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-a-neural-network-from-scratch/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-a-neural-network-from-scratch/A feed-forward neural network implementation in Go with support for multiple activation functions, model persistence, and an interactive TUI.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-enchanter/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-enchanter/How a Rust AI agent came together, what we borrowed, what we didn't, and the moment the agent started helping build itself.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-weightogether/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/building-weightogether/A technical deep dive into WeighTogether, a full-stack weight loss tracking application built with TypeScript, Express, and Prisma—intentionally avoiding heavy frameworks.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/can-science-justify-itself/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/can-science-justify-itself/Exploring the problem of induction and the limits of science.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/enchanter-meets-itself/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/enchanter-meets-itself/The moment an AI agent started helping build itself, and what that taught Andrew about the design choices that made it possible.Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/exploring-the-mandelbrot-set-in-ocaml/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/exploring-the-mandelbrot-set-in-ocaml/An interactive Mandelbrot set viewer built in OCaml with SDL2, exploring the math behind one of the most famous fractals.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/god-and-contingency/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/god-and-contingency/Resolving the paradox of a changeless God in a changing world through the lens of process philosophy and its implications for free will.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/hash-tables-and-2-bit-bookkeeping/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/hash-tables-and-2-bit-bookkeeping/A look into hash tables, using a C implementation as an example, and an explanation of the memory-saving '2-bit bookkeeping' technique.Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/in-the-hollow-of-the-night/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/in-the-hollow-of-the-night/Just a short poem about loneliness and remorseMon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/javascript-enigma-machine/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/javascript-enigma-machine/A deep dive into the Enigma machine's mathematics and how to simulate its complex cryptographic processes using JavaScript.Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/object-oriented-programming/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/object-oriented-programming/A brief overvue of the object oriented programming paradigmFri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/process-time-and-the-self/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/process-time-and-the-self/A follow-up reflection on process philosophy — exploring what it means for personal identity when reality itself is becoming rather than being.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/resume-for-andrew-s-erwin/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/resume-for-andrew-s-erwin/my inarticulate resumeFri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/sudoku-and-backtracking/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/sudoku-and-backtracking/Solving sudoku using backtracking algorithmWed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/the-blog-publishing-pipeline/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/the-blog-publishing-pipeline/A look at how andrewthecoder.com goes from idea to live — Astro, GitHub Actions, PM2, and a little help from AI along the way.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/the-end-of-self/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/the-end-of-self/If process theology says our experiences are received into God but we do not survive as conscious persons, is that hope or merely a beautiful memorial?Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewthecoder.com/blog/yearning-for-life/https://andrewthecoder.com/blog/yearning-for-life/A poem about finding hope and light amid darkness and despairMon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT