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I have recently worked on making a web application out of my latest Rubik’s cube optimal solver . This involved building a rather complex C code base (with multithreading, SIMD, callback functions and whatnot) to WebAssembly via Emscripten , and writing a minimal amount of JavaScript and HTML for the frontend.
You can make your shell history more useful by removing the typos and false starts.
Cute Framework is a simple, yet powerful C/C++ framework for building 2D games using the modern GPU pipeline. While C or C++ is fine, Swift is a modern language that many developers prefer for its safety and expressiveness. In this post, we will explore how to set up a project using Cute Framework with CMake, enabling…
Your trusty Dependabot (and other GitHub bots) might be an unwitting accomplice. Through "Confused Deputy" attacks, they can be tricked into merging malicious code. This doesn't stop here. It can escalate to full command injection via crafted branch names and even bypass branch protection rules. Plus, we disclose two…
Integrating my BM25 pandas search library, SearchArray, into BEIR, in order to embarass myself in public.
I wrote my first line of Rust in June 2015, a month after Rust 1.0 landed. Coming from C, Python, and JavaScript, I never looked back. Two Rust-based startups and 500k lines of Rust later, here are some reflections on the milestone.
A week ago, I knew absolutely nothing about Swift. Today, I have a working iOS app sitting on my Mac and my test device
How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.
AdaCore and NVIDIA have decided to publish this reference process freely as an open-source and evolving document, allowing the industry at large to adopt…
How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire
Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners
Golang might just be the best language for building AI agents.
The story behind writing The BEAM Book-ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.
Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.
I made a library that takes GPS coordinates and gives you the state.
Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend…
Go team plans around error handling support
Testing code fidelity with TLA+ specs at MongoDB. Explore conformance checking experiences and agile modelling in distributed systems.
Accelerate your UI development with MonsterUI, our Python library for building frontend UIs quickly in FastHTML apps.
Background On April 16, 2025, Apple released a patch for a bug in CoreAudio which they said was “Actively exploited in the wild.” This flew under the radar a bit. Epsilon’s blog has a great writeup of the other bug that was presumably exploited in this chain: a bug in RPAC. The only thing out there that I am aware of…
For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network…
Bridge the gap between structured logging and errors in Go
Why streaming isn't enough.
Lessons on incentives and scaling from two years as a teaching assistant
Transform Your Time Management Forever! Discover how switching to UTC eliminated time zone confusion, boosted productivity, and simplified global scheduling for remote work.
Check out our deep dive on the latest meta prompting methods, like DSPy and TEXTGRAD, and the best prompt generator tools out there.
(Image of "Four-Armed Chuck" programming a PDP-11 is from my giant write-up of Forth .)
One of my more frequent rants, both online and in person, is the danger posed by the "fast-math" compiler flag. While these rants may elicit resigned acknowledgment from those who already understand the dangers involved, they do little to help those who don't. So given the remarkable paucity of writing on the topic…
Exponential backoff with jitter is de rigeur for making service calls. This code, or something like it, probably looks really familiar: func do(ctx context.Context) error { const ( maxAttempts = 10 baseDelay = 1 * time.Second maxDelay = 60 * time.Second ) delay := baseDelay for attempt := range maxAttempts { err :=…
