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If you’re a developer rocking an Apple Silicon Mac and writing in Zig, congratulations - you’ve chosen the scenic route through the desert of profiling tools. It’s just you, your code, and a tumbleweed named Apple Instruments. But don’t worry - we’ll try to find some oases. Okay, it’s not that bad, but we’re far away…
Why most memoization is downright useless...
Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to:
A brief description of our task scheduling system
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages R…
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
I like bits, bits are mighty. With bits you can do impressive things!
It started with a simple thought: four bytes in a hash table bucket look just like an integer. Luckily, this one idea led to a deep dive into bit-twiddling and a 2x performance boost.
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metaphor for AI.
As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible
Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years
I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go
Claude Code keeps me waiting. Here I am pressing return like a crack-addicted rodent in a lab. “Yes, I want to make this edit.” I watch as it works, glassy-eyed and bored as the code scrolls by, and on the edge of my seat because my ideas are about to become reality.
This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts...
My attempt to create fast and cheap bulk storage by caching HDDs with SSDs on Linux, using standard lvmcache. Contains an introduction to LVM, RAID, and partitioning.
An explanation of some major issues with asyncio.
FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right
In this post I will make the case for the concept of a “runtime resizable struct” in Zig. I will then design an API by exploiting Zig’s powerful comptime functionality.
Yahoo let two future trillion-dollar companies get away. One of them twice.
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country.
Published: 25-07-2025 23:37 | Last update: 02-08-2025 21:31 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. You couldn't walk past a row of cubicles without hearing a manager cough "Mobile-first", much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner.
Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven…
100x More Efficient than Arm?
