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Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Infrastructure as code, but actually
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What the hell is a target triple?
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers.
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A New ASN.1 API for Python
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.
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Using Deno as my game engine
Software, games, and the occasional startup.
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LLMs understand nullability
The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider…
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OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
It Happened.
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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management
The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work.
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The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming
Read THE WEIRD CONCEPT OF BRANCHLESS PROGRAMMING on sanixdk.xyz
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
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Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
A subtle G++ bug from 2012, C++20’s new comparison rules, and legacy Boost code can collide to crash Solidity’s compiler on valid code. We unpack the surprising chain reaction and how to fix it.
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A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive
But this is slow! With 1,000,000 applications and 1000 users uniformly distributed on both columns, it takes over 100ms. 1
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Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript
I’ve needed this before - a couple of times. Third time I figured I needed something small, nimble - yet complete. And - at the same time - wondering about how to do it in a very simple manner. I think it worked out great, so let’s dig in. Most UIs will have some form of undo functionality. Now, there are generally…
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JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs
Since my previous blog entry about JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, sadly not much happened due to a lack of time, but still some things were done (biggest improvement was the port to ARM64, a few optimizations, implementing more opcodes…). But I am often asking myself how to really beat the interpreter… And on “modern”…
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Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.
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Less Htmx Is More
How to build great websites with htmx by learning a couple browser features alongside it.
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Using Python for Scripting
"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.
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Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
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Don't “let it crash”, let it heal
Don't "let it crash". Let it heal.
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A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.
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Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF
C++ implementation of the simplest callback
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Pitfalls of Safe Rust
When people say Rust is a “safe language”, they often mean memory safety. And while memory safety is a great start, it’s far from all it takes to build robust applications. Memory safety is necessary but not sufficient for overall reliability. In thi…
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The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Avoid Mini-Frameworks
I work in Google Ads in the past several years. Over time, I've seen one pattern came along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks.
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Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It’s currently only available via their Codex CLI tool …
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Which NPM package has the largest version number?
I spent way too much time on this
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MCP explained without hype or fluff
Model Context Protocol, like most protocols, solves the M ⨯ N integration problem by turning it into an M + N integration problem.
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Anatomy of a SQL Engine
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…