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AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
I am lucky in that I have a few side projects which have grown up to become full fledged companies. One of them builds little tools to detect different types of financial crime.
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SQLite Doesn't Use Git
Instead, it uses Fossil as a version control system. Some thoughts.
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Stop Writing Dead Programs
A strong runner up was this quote, which captures the essence of what we should be trying to do when creating new languages:
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Microvium Is Small
The Microvium JavaScript engine for microcontrollers takes less than 16 kB of ROM and 64 bytes of RAM per VM while idle, making it possibly the smallest JavaScript engine to date with more language features than engines 4x its size
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A guide to getting started with embedded systems
In this article, I share a beginner friendly guide to learning the basics of embedded systems and how they work. I talk about micontrollers, electronics, and software. I also share my motivation for working on embedded systems.
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The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (2016)
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores – Lozi et al. 2016 This is the first in a series of papers from EuroSys 2016. There are three strands here: first of all, there’s some grea…
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Incremental Parsing in Go
This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting. Like the rest of aretext, parsers are implemented in Go for portability and performance. Most people do not consider Go a functional programming language; nonetheless, aretext’s parsers rely on functional…
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I decided to build a nine-bit computer
The first nerdy dispatch from my Quixotic Hardware Project, QIXOTE-1
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Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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Little languages are the future of programming
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
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Use fzf for tmux session switching
https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0
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Go’s Version Control History
Every once in a while someone notices the first commit in the Go repo is dated 1972:
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Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022
I was curious to know if the functionality of VSCode can catch up with the native speed of some editors, such as Sublime. That led me to seek out where some bottlenecks may be and where time is being spent. In this post I look at both the internals and extensions.
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All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements
It's Christmastime and I've been happily working through this year's Advent of Code in Deno (look forward to a blog post in the new year). What with all the presents, it's a good time to think about what we'd most like to see from TypeScript in the new year. Here are my top seven feature requests for 2023. Yes, that's…
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Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the…
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Single binary executable packages
In support of software packages that come in the form of a single binary executable (statically linked or portable), that one can just copy anywhere in `${PATH}` and execute, without needing `sudo`, or downloading half the distribution's packages as dependencies.
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Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape
About six months back, I wrote a post on how to use views in Postgres to encapsulate tables and create a versioned interface to a database. At the end of the…
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Separate Your Billing from Entitlements
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you…
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How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
How I taught my 7½ year old 4 bash commands in one hour
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Asdf Performance
I’ve been a maintainer of asdf for about 6 years now. Most of my work these last several years has been fixing bugs, writing automated tests …
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Number theory explained from first principles
A lot of modern cryptography builds on insights from number theory, which has been studied for centuries.
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Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation
Take a look at this: This is a triangulation of a set of random points, such that all the points are connected to one another, all of the faces are triangles, and the edges include the convex hull of the points. I would like to claim that this is not a very “good” triangulation. This algorithm tends to produce lots of…
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To save C, we must save ABI
After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, huh? It seems especially bad,