The modern world of server serial ports, BMCs, and IPMI Serial over LAN

The Best Programming Game

Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

A brief history of Mac memory and its management

Compiling Lisp to Bytecode and Running It

Python type hints are probably "worth it" in the large for me

Retro Debugger: multiplatform debugger APIs host for retro computers

Git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite Git repository history

Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

Nostalgic DOS Development: Setting up the machine

Side Projects Reverie: side projects, and how I do them

Platform Advantages: Not Just Network Effects

Advent of Code in Zig

Orchestrion: Compile-time auto-instrumentation for Go

Some notes on my experiences with Python type hints and Mypy

M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes

Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade

Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma

Writing assembly language subroutines for Extended Color BASIC

Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard

FreeLRU: GC-less, fast and generic LRU hashmap library for Go

Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business

Getting a Pointer to a Constant in Go

M4 chips: CPU power, energy and mystery

Trip November 2024 ISO C++ standards meeting (Wrocław, Poland)

Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong? (2015)

Are Go Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study

My new POWER Indigo 2

Are Go Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study

GoMLX: ML in Go Without Python

Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve

A multi-emulator Gameboy tracer

GHC's WASM back end now supports Template Haskell and ghci

Bloom Filters and SQLite

AI: They All Use It

Applications making directories in my home

M4 chips: CPU core performance

State of Kotlin Scripting 2024

Optimizing a Go Package by 38147125738.8x

What's New in the Windows Subsystem for Linux in November 2024

Homebrew and Workbrew

Loop Targets

Stack Checking on OS/2

Context aware compilation: Gleam v1.6.0 released

AWS Lambda turns ten: looking back and looking ahead

Idempotent Command Handling

AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Running on Raspberry Pi

Terminal Dark/Light Mode

M4 chips: E and P cores

You can use C-Reduce for any language

Against Best Practices

A brief history of Mac ports: low speed

Removing global state from LLD, the LLVM linker

Mirror: An LLM-powered programming-by-example programming language

UK Government Announces Ban on New Coal Mines

M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

A Walk with LuaJIT

I'm Calling for a DST Strike

Backblaze Rate Limiting Policy for Consistent Performance

The Swarm Doc

When Abstractions Break

My Simple Knowledge Management and Time Tracking System

Rethinking microkernels: Towards a modern general-purpose OS

Fmt.Sprintf vs. String Concat

A new chapter, and thoughts on a pivotal year for C++

Inside M4 chips: P cores

A walk-through of hackathon facilitation

My Simple Knowledge Management and Time Tracking System

Rethinking microkernels: Towards a modern general-purpose OS

How to track file descriptors with Valgrind

Why Raspberry Pi for an SBC Guy

How to track file descriptors with Valgrind

Exact UNORM8 to Float

The limits of time travel in the face of undefined behavior in C

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Naming Integers

Exporting Kindle Highlights for Personal Documents

Entity extraction using OpenAI structured outputs mode

Notes on Binary Soup

The Use Method

Back to the future: Writing 6502 assembler with Amazon Q Developer

One Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here's What They Found

Golang Aha Moments: OOP

Why Pg_dump Is Amazing

Zig: Anonymous Struct Types Removed

Having Fun with Modern C++

Don't return named tuples in new APIs

M4 Incoming

The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes

The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant

Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python

ASCII control characters in my terminal

Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them

The Origin of Venvstacks

Multi-version concurrency control in TLA+

ASCII control characters in my terminal

Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

SSH Remoting

Keeping your site accessible to old browsers is non-trivial