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How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly
Or why robots are playing DOOM now
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I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
In this post I’ll just rambling about ASN.1; parts of the compiler implementation, and some of the tool’s output rather than the tool itself as its still too WIP to really advertise on its own yet.
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Clojure Zippers (2021)
In this article, we will discuss zippers in the Clojure language. These are an unusual way to work with collections. Using a zipper, you can traverse a data structure arbitrarily and modify its content as well as search in it. A zipper is a powerful abstraction that pays off over time. However, it is not as…
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Why SSA?
If you’ve read anything about compilers in the last two decades or so, you have almost certainly heard of SSA compilers , a popular architecture featured in many optimizing compilers, including ahead-of-time compilers such as LLVM, GCC, Go, CUDA (and various shader compilers), Swift 1 , and MSVC 2 , and just-in-time…
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Forth: The programming language that writes itself
An exploration of the evolution and meaning of the Forth programming language and its context in history.
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The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
Web frameworks benchmarks on CPython 3.14t looks promising
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Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors
I read a good post by one of the authors of the Isabelle theorem prover, that got me thinking. The author, Lawrence Paulson, observed that most math proofs are trivial, but writing them (preferably with a proof assistant) is a worthwhile activity, for reasons similar to safety checklists - “Not every obvious statement…
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When you get to be smart writing a macro
A story of writing Clojure’s println alternative that works inside threading-first/last macros
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Ruby Blocks
How to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks.
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Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial
If you can ctrl-c and ctrl-v, you can build a JIT.
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Go subtleties
Some of my favorite tidbits from the past year of working with Go.
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Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025
Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 for replacing the very slow Mattel ECS BASIC for Intellivision.
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A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler
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Rating 26 years of Java changes
I first started programming Java at IBM back in 1999 as a Pre-University Employee. If I remember correctly, we had Java 1.1.8 installed at that time, but were moving to Java 1.2 (“Java 2”), which w…
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Let's write a macro in Rust
Macros are required to do some very helpful things in Rust, but this isn't an article about any of those things.
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Python's splitlines does more than just newlines
I always assumed that Python's str.splitlines() split strings by " universal newlines ", i.e., \n , \r , and \r\n .
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Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…
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Arenas in Rust
At one level, this question is not very fair, because an answer to it as stated would be that one simply does not use doubly linked lists. They have been popular in introductory computer science lectures because they are a neat way to explain pointers in a data structure that's easy to draw on a whiteboard, but they…
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Cancellations in async Rust
Correctness in the face of cancellations: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2025.
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Delimited continuations in lone Lisp
The lone lisp delimited continuations implementation journey.
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Why I chose Lua for this blog
AndreGarzia.com website
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The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements
Blog of Vincent Rolfs. Vincent is a freelance Software Engineer and IT-Consultant. He has more than ten years experience in developing complex applications on the web.
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What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
.NET 10 GC tuning shows how stack allocations, DATAS, and region sizing cut allocations, improve latency, and reduce your cloud cost.
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`std::flip`
std::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header <functional>: it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”).
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Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?
Quarto Academic Website Template adapted by Dr. Gang He
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Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools
Why I reach for Zig first for my CLI tools lately
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Easy Forth (2015)
This small ebook is here to teach you a programming language called Forth. Forth is a language unlike most others. It’s not functional or object oriented, it doesn’t have type-checking, and it basically has zero syntax. It was written in the 70s, but is still used today for certain applications .
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Be careful with Go struct embedding
The gophers nested too greedily and too deep.
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Is Zig's new writer unsafe?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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In Defense of C++
Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape.