Frenchirix and the Research on How to Learn Languages

I Wrote a Compiler

Lessons from 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs

How the Final Cartridge III Freezer Works

Llm.codes: Transform Developer Docs to Clean Markdown

Exploring 16-bit Bus Access on the PC/AT

Six Months with the Supernote Nomad

Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity

The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string

Steam Client Beta: now run natively on Apple Silicon

Framework Is Showing

Slog Is Aptly Named

What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

C++26: Disallow Binding a Returned Reference to a Temporary

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers

Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions

On Buying the Commodore Brand

Debug Like a Champion

Domain-Driven Design Revisited

Custom C++ stdlib: The bleedingest edge variant

You could automate (some) boilerplate Go error handling with a formatter

Commanding Your Claude Code Army

Twitter could (somewhat) fix their encrypted DMs

The basics of an indirect threaded code ANS Forth implementation

Hybrid Register/Stack VM for Faster Function Calls

Log Your Entire ZSH History

Hypervisors for Memory Introspection and Reverse Engineering

Creating cross-compiled Docker images from Go binaries

I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry

The symbolism of the magnifying glass is not universal

Liberating Search from the Search Engine

How Compiler Explorer Works

Should I still use analytics?

Hybrid Register/Stack VM for Faster Function Calls

John Henry and the large language model

Old Desktop to Linux: Wayland is still not ready

Fun with Futex

Modern Software 2025 Edition

LLMs Are Cheap

Pledge with a Reëxecing Process

Immediate Mode Option Parser: Small, Simple, Elegant

Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

An optimizing compiler doesn't help much with long instruction dependencies

Rsync's defaults are not always enough

How to Read a Novel

Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living

Consider Knitting

A limited-time flavor: Blue Raspberry Pi

It's Not Your Codebase

Building a Linux Electron App

30 years ago, Apple fans met the Mac clone. This is the weird, wild story

A new generation of Tailscale access controls

My Guidelines for Vibe-Coding

Quantifying the impact of an AI tool in our company

The Dismal Failure of LLMs as EV Search Aids

Pure vs. Impure Iterators in Go

Philips Ease

Redesigning the Initial Rust Bootstrap Sequence

Using SQL to turn all the buses around

Go may require prefaulting MMAP

The fundamental misunderstanding in Team Topologies

The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers

How I Made Queuedle: daily word sliding puzzle game inspired by Wordle/Scrabble

Keeping a Mistake Journal

As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook

Async Compute All the Things

Is the job market for software developers collapsing?

Why the original Macintosh had a screen resolution of 512×324

LLVM integrated assembler: Improving expressions and relocations

Linux Cgroup from First Principles

The Workload Fairy Tale

Sometimes the Dependencies Are Useful

Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2

What I learnt about making websites by reading two thousand web pages

GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world

LLMs Are Weird, Man

In defense of shallow technical knowledge

C# 14: Exploring extension members

Dependency injection frameworks add confusion

The length of file names in early Unix

Picking the right (archaic) Window Manager

Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, heaptrack edition

Bypassing Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) with CVE-2025-0072

MV-HEVC with X265 and Nvidia

Dividing an array into fair sized chunks

Environment variables with no equals sign

Another Tale of Go.mod Bloat

3 Years of Remote Work

Thinking about what you'd want in a modern simple web server

I don't like ChatGPT's new memory dossier

Property-Based Testing

Getting Kids Interested in Coding

Disable debuginfo to improve Rust compile times

Open Source Can't Coordinate

Hypervisor as a Library

The Tyranny of Code

Python, type hints, and feeling like they create a different language

Optimizing Page Splits in Books