I don’t need a Steam Machine

Comparing the run-time performance of Fil-C and ASAN

The Joy of Rediscovering Perl

AMD vs. Intel: A Unicode Benchmark

Garbage Collection Is Useful

When Edges and Vertices Were Discovered

How we avoided side-channels in our new post-quantum Go cryptography libraries

Cjsawk: A self-hosted compiler for a subset of C, JavaScript, and Awk

Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python

Static Bundle Object: Death by a thousand cuts

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans

Template Interpreters

Tony Hoare and Negative Space

Fizz Buzz without conditionals or booleans

The Overly Humble Programmer

Homebrew 5.0.0

C++ Enum Class and Error Codes

In Defense of an A-Series MacBook

Source: Markdown

My Kind of REPL

Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher

Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All

Lotus Organiser

Trip November 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Kona, USA)

The "Dependency Cutout" Workflow Pattern

I Tried Moving to GrapheneOS

PDP-10 and Microcomputers

A HTTP User-Agent that claims to be Googlebot is now a bad idea

The SID: Classic 8-bit sound [video]

Containers and giving up on expecting good software installation practices

Two years without Google, et al., has it been worth it?

Error Codes for Control Flow

Once upon a time this blog was powered by make

Go's runtime may someday start explicitly freeing some internal memory

A prvalue is not a temporary

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

Creating Lisp Systems

The unreasonable effectiveness of stack ranking

Mail your parents a Tailscale node

Varnish Orca: Virtual Registry Manager for build and runtime artifacts

Async Mutexes

Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#

Snapit: Snapshot Testing for C

Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres

"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful

Revisiting Interface Segregation in Go

How often does Python allocate?

Borrow checker says "No": An error that scares me every single time

A prvalue is not a temporary

Per-request isolation in TinyKVM explained

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

Stella, the Atari 2600 Emulator

From Keyboard to Voice: The Future of Computing Is Talking

Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple?

Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability

A Tool for Working with Git Worktrees

Claude as My External Brain: Autistic, ADHD, and Supported

Task: Modern, Friendly Make Replacement

Stack walking: space and time trade-offs

LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology

By the Power of Grayscale

Collective Communication for 100k+ GPUs

Bringing CGI Back from the Dead

86Box v5.2: now with Floppy drive sounds

An Update on TinyKVM

Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box

Implementing an RPN Calculator in Rust

Multiply your branches in a Git Worktree

Gleam v1.13: Formalising external APIs

Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again

Petscii/ASCII Conversion

Schneier on LLM vulnerabilities, agentic AI, and "trusting trust"

How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go

The Localhost Podcast CLI Tool

Prompt injection to RCE in AI agents

I used to like software development but not anymore

The fix wasn't easy, or C precedence bites

Why SSA?

Software engineering primer for non software engineers

What's New in PyObjC 12.0

Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?

We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

AI-powered security engineers and source code scanners

I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

The Design Space of LLM-Based AI Coding Assistants [pdf]

Bookish Diversions: Bound in Human Skin?

Tracking Value for Your Effort

Hidden benefits of undefined behavior

Claude 4.5 Haiku does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it

Woosh: Wonderful object-oriented shell environment

Modeling Identity Types

Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust

Vaqt: High-precision date/time in C

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

Software Can Be Finished

When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance

Kagi Translate Proofreading Mode

Functions Are Asymmetric