1921
Switch Lowering in GCC
We have seen in a previous post that switch statements are more complex than they seem. The compiler is able to implement them as a decision tree (even though maybe it shouldn't). Is that everything it can do?
1922
Unusual Suspects
Sketch the suspect from witness testimony
1923
Is this the new cyber normal?
A week of cyber incidents one after another – is this what every week is going to look like and what can we do about it?
1924
Where does next-token prediction leave us?
Your favourite ROP gadget
1925
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
std::simd Can't Express 90% of Real SIMD Code
1926
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
1927
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well. Just jogging
1928
Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that runs eBPF scripts in userspace ( intro ). Now it's got a Caddy-compat mode - when provided a Caddyfile, zeroserve JIT-compiles it to eBPF and then to native x86_64/ARM64 machine code, and runs it in an io_uring event loop.
1929
Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System
A vṛtta (meter) aware śloka-to-chant system for Sanskrit. Try the live demo, hear sample chants, read the paper.
1930
Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...
1931
Pre-2022 Books
I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of.
1932
Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
1933
How Compaction Works in Pi
Why compaction is needed for large language models and how Pi implements it
1934
Tractor
The electric tractor is finished! I have been working on this on and off for about 6 months. It is a toy for children (and me) to drive around the garden.
1935
Font Rendering from First Principles
Learn what it takes to build a font renderer from scratch in C.
1936
1937
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
1938
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
A comprehensive guide to 113 production-informed patterns for building reliable AI agents.
1939
A perfectable programming language
At a party, Sydney Von Arx asked if I could name 40 programming languages. Yeah, that's the Bay for you. Racket, Agda, Clean, Elm, TypeScript, sh, ASP, Verilog, JavaScript, Scheme, Rust, Nim, INTERCAL, sed, Isabelle, Visual Basic, zsh, AlokScript, Coq, Idris, Hack, Prolog, Whitespace, PureScript, Go, Odin, Haskell…
1940
My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood
In Which I go into Great Detail About Digitizing Video8 and Learn My Grandmama Lived With a Prostitute
1941
Are two heads better than one?
A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game
1942
On Rendering Diffs
A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.
1943
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
[This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value ab…
1944
Data is the only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
1945
The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
1946
Introduction to Obsidian
An introduction to Obsidian. Why you should use it, how to keep it simple, and how you can use it.
1947
SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…
1948
Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
I’ve been fascinated with local LLMs for a couple of years now. The better open weight models, including some that inference on regular, higher-end consumer hardware at tolerable speeds, are now reliable enough to handle simpler programming tasks. This requires a coding harness, but so far this year I’ve been…
1949
SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File
Run Rails on SQLite with WAL and Docker volumes while accounting for the concurrency failure that appears during blue-green deploys.
1950
The Harness Is the Thing
Models are commodifying. The harness - skills, extensions, a scriptable app - is where the work and the leverage now live.