A dive into the app I designed, built and never launched. Stocketa was a personal project developed to serve as a simple stock portfolio tracker for casual investors. The app was built using Swift and SwiftUl and offered a custom UI, comprehensive transaction tracking, and a variety of features.
Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures in an editor I have been building, specifically the most…
A fresh take on the classic rally game with widescreen support, high definition UI, and countless bug fixes.
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transactional guarantees.
To better understand how transformers work, I hand-assigned all the weights to predict a simple sequence.
"Prompt Engineering" emerged from the growth of language models to describe the process of applying prompting to effectively extract information from language models, typically for use in real-world applications.
Post by Eshel Yaron about changes for the worse in Emacs 30 registers feature
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
Ever wanted more different ways to understand what’s going on in a program? Here I catalogue a huge variety of tracing methods you can use for varying types of problems. Tracing has been such a long-standing interest (and job) of mine that some of these will novel and interesting to anyone who reads this. I’ll…
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
Dynamicland is still going, just quietly. We closed the Oakland space for covid, but Realtalk development and collaborations have continued -- basically as originally planned, if more slowly due to our small size.
My opinions have changed somewhat since I last wrote this blog post, and I wish to clarify some things. Please read the follow-up in my latest post Clarifying Some Things .
Note : This post stirred up some interesting discussions on HackerNews and Lobste.rs .
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
Ferris meme Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust....
But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control
Things I Learned From Hundreds of Experiments
4 Years In, OpenTelemetry Delivers on its Promise for Open Observability
Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
Fastest general and simple binary search C++ implementation
In association with the release of curl 8.4.0, we publish a security advisory and all the details for CVE-2023-38545. This problem is the worst security problem found in curl in a long time. We set it to severity HIGH. While the advisory contains all the necessary details. I figured I would use a few additional ……
The bug lies in closed-source Google-proprietary code so it’s a bit hard to inspect, but after some patch-diffing I concluded that the root cause was due to this horrible bit of API ‘design’: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/180526528 .
I spend most of my time writing code in a full screen terminal. I like to read books on my breaks and I'm a big fan of Project Gutenberg, which has over 70...
It is often said that Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery. Also, remember libcrurl? That was the name of the thing Google once planned to do: reimplement the libcurl API on top of their Chrome networking library. Flattery or not, it never went anywhere. The other day I received an email asking me about ……
