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Lessons from six months at Shopify
I’m now six months into Shopify. So far it’s going basically on schedule: as I was told, “Your first couple months you’re going to have zero idea what’s going on. Then around month three you’ll com…
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What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
Anybody who has ever taken an advanced computer architecture class has heard of the CDC6600, which was the world’s fastest computer from 1964 to 1969. It was the machine that put Seymour Cray…
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Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)
An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
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Build Your Own FPGA (2012)
The Open 7400 Logic Competition is a crowd-sourced contest with a simple but broad criteria for entry: build something interesting out of discrete logic chips. It's now in its second year, and this time around I was inspired to enter it.
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Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface
A few days ago on Christmas day 2020, Matz released Ruby 3.0. Like every year, a host of interesting new features was included with the new version. Most articles I have read so far focus more on the new ways to introduce type hints and the Ractor system but for me the most interesting addition was the introduction of…
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Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos
According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican: Here’s the SQL query that found me my …
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I enforced the AGPL on my code
Published: 20-10-2020 | Last update: 28-02-2022 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited
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Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch
In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia definition: “[…] initrd is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, which may be used as part of the Linux startup process […] to make…
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Ramanujan's Easiest Formula
A while ago I decided to figure out how to prove one of Ramanujan’s formulas. I feel this is the sort of thing every mathematician should try at least once. I picked the easiest one I could f…
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How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
Answer: probably around $35 million.
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I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
Things are totally different than when I first learnt Spanish back in 2003.
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Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
I just spent the past 6 hours migrating some of my open source projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and I thought I'd pause for a bit (12 hours into this project, probably 15-20 more to go) to jot down a few thoughts. I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible…
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I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
A blog about computing and other fun.
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How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)
Take manual control of your Linux system’s DNS resolution and keep programs from interfering with and overwriting your resolv.conf file.
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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being…
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SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
5 SEO lessons learned by writing 1 blog post every day for 2 years
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Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
Learn the shape of the logs of probability distributions, and you’ll be able to guess how they behave.
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Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming
Writing quality software is hard. Sometimes, software breaks in entertaining ways. However, when software runs everything from personal assistants like Alexa and Google Home to banking to elections, some bugs can be much more severe. Thi...
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Taking Up Animation as a Hobby
Whatever else happens, you made a movie... Nobody can take that away. A hundred years from now, when we're all dead and gone, people will be watching this fucking thing.