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It has baked lighting with normal mapping and real-time specular shading, ahem, well sort of. More on that later. The beautiful song was made by noby with guitar performed by Moloko ( https://soundcloud.com/sou_andrade ).
Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version .
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
Curated list of project ideas for programmers who aren't sure what to build. We chose 73 projects that teach a lot and are fun to build.
Addressing recent Deno criticisms and sharing our vision for the future
Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string. In C it is the function strstr , the C++ class std::string has the method find , Python's string has methods pos and index , and so on, so forth. All these APIs were designed for one-shot searches . During past…
I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development.
Earlier this week, Haroen Viaene posted this tweet about YAML: worst part of yaml: https://yaml.org/type/bool.html — Haroen Viaene (@haroenv) January 10, 2022 The linked-to page contains the documentation on what defines a boolean in YAML, and details that it can be parsed using this regex…
2023-01-01: This project has been ongoing for a while... now its time to post some of this info and see what comes of it. I have access to several junk Milwaukee M18 batteries. Age varies a little. I thought it would be 'fun' to reverse engineer a battery just to see how it functions... That is until I actually opened
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…
When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this…
Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.
Musings on the representation, propagation and handling of errors in existing programming languages, as well as thoughts on future systems. (15K+ words)
My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.
TinyTapeout VGA 1D Cellular Automata Simulation
New context editing and memory tools enable Claude agents to handle long-running tasks without hitting context limits.
Benchmarks and theoretical explanation of why and when hashed radix sort beats hash tables.
Over the past few years, we've seen that next-token prediction scales, denoising diffusion scales, contrastive learning scales, and so on, all the way to the point where we can train models with billions of parameters with a scalable objective that can eat up as much data as we can throw at it. Then, what about…
A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.
Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization
I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down. The other day I was discussing Tabby…
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A review of the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer, updated for modern software development.
We discovered why language models catastrophically fail on long conversations: when old tokens are removed to save memory, models produce complete gibberish. We found models dump massive attention onto the first few tokens as "attention sinks"—places to park unused attention since softmax requires weights to sum to 1…
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
It helps, of course, that I still consider many of the people I worked with friends, and I know some of them even still read this blog. (Hi!)
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
