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Defaulting on Single Page Applications
If you’re trying to build a single page application (SPA), you should probably use a tool designed primarily for the job. Site generators focused on…
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Kubernetes is hard
Recently, 37signals unveiled mrsk , a tool developed internally to ease with deployments of their services and an accompanying blog post which sparked a lengthy discussion on Hacker News .
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Rust's Golden Rule
I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…
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Zig and Rust
This post will be a bit all over the place. Several months ago, I wrote Hard Mode Rust, exploring an allocation-conscious style of programming. In the ensuing discussion, @jamii name-dropped TigerBeetle, a reliable, distributed, fast, and small database written in Zig in a similar style, and, well, I now find myself…
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Zig Quirks
Little things you'll notice and need to learn when learning Zig
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Writing a Profiler in 240 lines of pure Java
A few months back, I started writing a profiler from scratch, and the code since became the base of my profiler validation tools. The only problem with this project: I wanted to write a proper non-safepoint-biased profiler from scratch. This … Continue reading →
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Ban 1+N in Django
I always thought of 1+N as a thing that you just keep in your head, catch on code reviews or via performance regressions. This worked well for a long …
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My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021)
Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I needed more to really understand the language. I wanted to work on a small project to get some hands-on experience, but…
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Explaining my fast 6502 code generator
To learn how optimizing compilers are made, I built one targeting the 6502 architecture . In a bizarre twist, my compiler generates faster code than GCC, LLVM, and every other compiler I compared it to.
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Kobold, a new web UI crate with zero-cost static DOM
The TodoMVC implemented in Kobold weighs about 30kb when gzipped over the wire, out of which the gzipped Wasm blob is under 20kb. There are no tricks there . I haven't replaced the default allocator, nor have I minified the JavaScript (although I probably should).
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Understanding Glibc Malloc (2015)
I always got fascinated by heap memory. Questions such as How heap memory is obtained from kernel? How efficiently memory is managed? Is it managed by kernel or by library or by application itself?…
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Why take a compiler course? (2010)
[…] Embedded in Academia : Why Take a Compiler Course? – Seconded, or whatever – my compiler course was briefer than I'd have liked but many of my peers didn't take it and I spent ages explaining what I thought where simple concepts to them when working on group projects and the like. […]
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Introduction to P vs. NP
Series Introduction In this series of articles I would like to share with you a set of ideas that are meant to help non-technical people build a better intuition as to what the current software and…
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How to start a React Project in 2023
React starter kits (Vite, Next, Astro, Remix, React Router) which help React developers to start a React project in 2025 ...
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Butler Virtual Operating System
This post introduces [[butler]], a virtual operating system that runs multi-players applications on the web. In two parts, I present:
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Fascination of Awk
I describe why AWK is great for prototyping and is often the best alternative to the shell and Python
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Practical Libc-free threading on Linux
Suppose you’re not using a C runtime on Linux, and instead you’re programming against its system call API. It’s long-term and stable after all. Memory management and buffered I/O are easily solved, but a lot of software benefits from concurrency. It would be nice to also have thread spawning capability. This article…
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Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel
Why DFINITY builds Rust with Bazel.
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The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe (2021)
It is difficult to write software which reliably and safely manages processes on Unix; this is because of flaws in the API. I know of no Unix system which has solved these problems, but in this article I'll be specifically talking about the Linux process API.
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The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments
Deploy Go apps as single static binaries with systemd. No Docker, no npm, zero-downtime via socket activation. Modern complexity is often unnecessary.
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
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A ChatGPT Emacs Shell
UPDATE: has evolved a bit and is now on MELPA. I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a good try, preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT seemed ...
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Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
In this article, previously part of my new book, we look at the introduction of .NET Core, why it was created, and how it has evolved into .NET 7.
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So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can …
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Curl 8.0.1
Right. I said in the 8.0.0 blog post that it might be a good release. It was. Apart form the little bug that caused it to crash in several test cases. So now we shipped curl 8.0.1, which is almost identical apart from a single commit that was reverted. Exactly why this was not discovered … Continue reading curl 8.0.1…
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Why use Rust on the back end?
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
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A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
wingolog: article: a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us
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Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.