Honza Pokorny

A personal blog

I'm a Czech-born Reformed Presbyterian, working as a senior software engineer at Red Hat, currently living in Nova Scotia, Canada. You will often hear me talking about coffee, photography, old books, Emacs, functional programming, weird keyboards, text interfaces, learning human languages, jazz, and many other hipster things...

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You can find me in many of the usual places like Twitter, GitHub, on Mastodon as @honza@pokorny.ca, and some of my projects are hosted on Smithy.

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2023

Bootstrapping a Hare development environment with Nix March 3, 2023
Using the Fujifilm X100V as a film camera February 10, 2023
You think film prices are high now? February 10, 2023
Summer's end January 9, 2023

2022

A few quotes from The King James Version: Its tradition, text, and translation October 28, 2022
Not by bread alone bible reading plan October 21, 2022
Evaluation of the Modern English Version translation September 30, 2022
Project launch: The Greek New Testament September 27, 2022
One book per week September 13, 2022
Professor Grant Horner's Bible-Reading System September 13, 2022
Children and screen time February 3, 2022
How to side-load epub files to Kindle the right way January 31, 2022

2021

How we may read the Scriptures with the most spiritual profit October 12, 2021

2020

Why the Westminster Reference Bible is the best all-around bible you can buy October 30, 2020
The cost of shooting film in 2020 in Canada June 17, 2020
The Lord's prayer and the critical text January 9, 2020

2019

Password Management For a More Civilized Age December 4, 2019
William Ames on Preaching June 14, 2019
Calvin on the eighth commandment May 13, 2019
John Girardeau, Musical Instruments in the Public Worship of the Church April 8, 2019
On having a standard translation of the Scriptures April 1, 2019
If novels were formatted like bibles January 25, 2019
He forgave how much?! January 22, 2019

2018

Law of Christ is Equivalent to the Law of the Ten Commandments November 29, 2018
How to save hundreds of dollars on theology books October 25, 2018
Is prayer a vibration? October 22, 2018

2017

Red-letter theology November 26, 2017
Comparing editions of the Institutes November 24, 2017
My journey to find the best Bible November 2, 2017
Why the ESV is both excellent and terrible October 16, 2017
Counting in your head June 3, 2017
Should I finally drop QWERTY? April 28, 2017
Teaching my son about computers April 20, 2017
Best baby advice I ever got February 23, 2017
The Marathon obsession January 26, 2017
Water consumption January 19, 2017

2015

Internal Clojure libraries November 6, 2015
Language choice November 2, 2015
Building a Redis clone in Haskell September 3, 2015
Programming languages in a nutshell February 18, 2015
Markdown editors are an anti-pattern February 18, 2015

2014

Single vs Many Programming Languages May 21, 2014
How to use piggieback in vim-fireplace to hack cljs March 20, 2014

2013

Lisp parentheses December 12, 2013
Masterless Saltstack December 11, 2013
How to compile vim July 18, 2013
How I back up my laptop July 15, 2013
When HN gets in the way July 13, 2013
Duplicate Bible verses June 25, 2013
Bible verses by length June 25, 2013
I hate your code June 21, 2013
Who are the weak Christians? June 13, 2013
Text editor UI May 24, 2013
Google plus adoption May 21, 2013
Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler May 13, 2013
Software Engineering Interviews May 9, 2013
International families April 10, 2013
Calvin on predestination March 1, 2013
Haskell vs Clojure syntax February 12, 2013
Canada is a schizophrenic country January 23, 2013

2012

10 chapters December 28, 2012
Gender inclusive language December 19, 2012
Mutt sidebar labels October 30, 2012
Haskell Strings October 24, 2012
On Learning Clojure August 26, 2012
Large Javascript Application Tips July 16, 2012
Why you should use Heroku for your next start-up May 21, 2012
How I use git May 11, 2012
Standing desk - first impressions April 24, 2012
How Rackspace deleted my server February 15, 2012
Remap CapsLock to something useful February 7, 2012
How not to depend on PyPI February 4, 2012
Disrupt the multiple-gmail space January 18, 2012
Upgrading your Django media files to use a CDN January 17, 2012
Inerrancy January 13, 2012
Writing Node.js modules January 5, 2012

2011

Interpretation mistakes December 22, 2011
Programmers and sore eyes December 13, 2011
Data-driven javascript applications October 25, 2011
On why we lack mature Christians October 21, 2011
Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman October 7, 2011
On heaven and boredom October 5, 2011
Bible translations and the Christian life October 1, 2011
Using Chef with small Django apps September 20, 2011
Google APIs - Y U NO WORK September 13, 2011
DjangoCon 2011 Take-Aways September 10, 2011
The pre-GPS world July 28, 2011
Why I love reStructuredText July 19, 2011
On prayer and the closing of the eyes July 18, 2011
What is a blog? July 4, 2011
Why I don't like the Ruby community June 20, 2011
The best IDE June 19, 2011
Scalability and feet and asses June 19, 2011
Install Ruby gems into virtualenv June 10, 2011
Deploying Django with nginx and gunicorn May 30, 2011
The importance of git rebase May 14, 2011
The modern web developer and open source licenses May 3, 2011
Virtual machines for Django developers April 19, 2011
Why you should be using CoffeeScript April 11, 2011
The latest greatest technology April 9, 2011
JSLint syntax checker for vim April 5, 2011
The Irrationality of Being an Apple Fanboy March 18, 2011
7 ways Github has changed the open source world March 5, 2011
How To Convert Vim Colorschemes To Pygments Themes February 25, 2011
Why Nokia chose Windows over Android February 11, 2011
How My Website Works January 22, 2011
Android Development disappointments January 18, 2011
Apple Finally Catches Up To Linux January 17, 2011

2010

How Money Is Made Online December 14, 2010
Why I Chose Android November 2, 2010
How To Use Twitter OAuth On Android September 28, 2010
Posterous-style Blogging On App Engine July 7, 2010
Twitter Success Story - Hurricane Bill June 2, 2010