I’m Jason Stillwell, a software engineer. This is my blog where I write about programming, tools, and whatever else catches my interest.
The Name
In Perl, "0 but true" is a special string that evaluates to zero numerically but passes as true in a boolean context. It exists because some functions need to return zero and signal success at the same time — zero rows affected, but the query worked. Perl even whitelists this specific string to suppress the numeric warnings it would otherwise trigger.
It seemed like a fitting name for a blog.