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So long, and thanks for all the bytes
Goodbye Tech, Hello Future
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Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Last time we counted CPU instructions, let’s look at syscalls now!
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UI = f(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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Clean your codebase with basic information theory
Cut out everything that's not surprising.
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Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation (2023)
Automatic Differentiation
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Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?
This question is always asked. My thoughts are a little bit different than what I've read online.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers.
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Linux/ELF .eh_frame from the bottom up
Given the current register state for a thread, and read-only access to memory, what would the register state hypothetically become if the current function was to immediately return and execution was to resume in its caller?
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Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
As the story of C’s birth goes hand in hand with the creation of Unix, the first C compiler can be traced back to the early 1970’s.
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Mastering Programming (2016)
FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK
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Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine
I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…
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Analyzing Spotify Stream History
I recently learned Spotify provides downloads for users’ streaming history. For me, this is over 10 years worth of data, so at the very least it seemed like a good nostalgia trip. This post covers some of my analysis of my personal export, and hopefully is a good starting place if you’re interested in exploring your…
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Shell scripting with Elixir
Using Elixir instead of Python or Ruby for shell scripting.
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Finding a new software developer job
For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. I managed to find a new one, but it took longer than I thought, and it was a lot of work. I was in contact wit…
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Minimal Linux Bootloader debugging story
I maintain two builds of the Linux kernel, a linux/arm64 build for gokrazy, my Go appliance platform, which started out on the Raspberry Pi, and then a linux/amd64 one for router7, which runs on PCs. The update process for both of these builds is entirely automated, meaning new Linux kernel releases are automatically…
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Getting into robotics as a software engineer
Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems. Two years ago I started looking around for companies in Amsterdam and came across…
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Extending Rust's Effect System
This is the transcript of my RustConf 2023 talk: "Extending Rust's Effect System", presented on September 13th 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and streamed online.
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Power of small optimizations
In this post, I will talk about the importance of small optimizations that can provide a lot of performance improvements.
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Postgres as queue
The team I've been working in for the last year or so have had great success using Postgres-as-queue. We've managed to avoid the following:
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React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good
PR-007 - Why you don't need React - Thoughts and Ideas
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I accidentally Blender VSE
A bit over two months ago I started to contribute a bit of code to Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) Even the feature page for it on the website looks… a bit empty lol.
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Porting Libyaml to Safe Rust: Some Thoughts
The following is a loose collection of thoughts that came up while porting unsafe-libyaml to safe, idiomatic Rust, which may be useful to someone else who is considering "rewriting it in Rust", as the ancient journeyman prayer goes.
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A distributed systems reading list
An old document I surfaced with my quick tour of distributed systems theory fundamentals
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Context Control in Go
Best practices for handling context plumbing in Go
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Lamport Clocks
Last weekend I wanted to get some inspiration to write some TLA+ spec and I got my hands back on the paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events...
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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.