Ian Wagner - 1

Ian Wagner

Ian Wagner

Author of 34 posts

Most people know me as a programmer. I’ve been developing mobile apps since the month the App Store launched, but spend most of my time on backend software and libraries these days. I love startups, and have even co-founded a few! I’ve worked in industries ranging from streaming media to finance and even agriculture. My current day job (and nights and weekends too sometimes) is Stadia Maps.

Ian Wagner - 1

Two Weeks of Emacs

by ian

I'm approximately 2 weeks into using emacs as my daily editor and, well, I haven't opened JetBrains since. I honestly didn't expect that, but here we are. Papercuts I said I would solve later Here's t...

Returning to Emacs

by ian

JetBrains woes I have been a fan of JetBrains products for over a decade by now, and an unapologetic lover of IDEs generally. I've used PyCharm since shortly after it launched, and over the years I've...

Typing Hanja on macOS

by ian

이제 漢字 쓰는 方法을 알게 되었다! I was today years old when I finally figured out how to type Hanja (characters from China that were historically used to write Korean). It struck me as very strange that this didn...

reqwest 0.13 Upgrade and WebPKI

by ian

In case you missed the announcement, the reqwest crate has a new and very important release out! reqwest is an opinionated, high-level HTTP client for Rust, and the main feature of this release is tha...

Even Safer Rust with Miri

by ian

Recently some of the Miri contributors published a paper that was accepted to POPL. I've been using Rust professionally for about 7 years now, and while I'd heard of Miri several times over the years,...

2025 in Review

by ian

I have never done one of these kinds of public posts, but saw a few from friends so I thought it might be useful! This year I was simultaneously more focused on my technical craft than ever, but also ...

Delightfully Simple Pipelines with Nushell

by ian

I've been using nushell as my daily driver for about six months now, and wanted to show a few simple examples of why I'm enjoying it so much. I think it's a breath of fresh air compared to most shells...

Faster SSH File Transfers with rsync

by ian

If you're a developer or sysadmin, there's a pretty good chance you've had to transfer files back and forth. Back in the old days, you may have used the ftp utility or something similar (I think my fi...