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A bird's eye view of Polars
Read how Polars executes your query from planning, optimizing to execution.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,535 posts.
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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)
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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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Is something bugging you?
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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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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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
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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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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
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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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What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
Postgres 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. This post is a deep dive into 10 of the improvements, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between Postgres 15 & Postgres 16.
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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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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
[This article is the companion to my presentation for CodeBEAM America 2024, Elixir is the One-Person Stack for Building a Software Startup. You can download the slides as a PDF or view them in Google Slides .]
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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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When "letting it crash" is not enough
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.
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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.
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ElixirNitpicks
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.