So, what is a cache? A cache is a small, fast place where you keep copies of things you’ll probably need again soon. Think about your kitchen. Your rice, spices and oil live in the pantry, but…

OpenSpec describes very precisely what a system must do. But nowhere does it show, in one piece, how a user moves through the application step by step. This is not a bug in the tool. It is a…

How I compared 32 speech recognition configurations and combined GigaAM with Parakeet to transcribe Russian meetings locally, reducing WER from 27.0% to 21.7%.

What you see in a union is based on how the data is interpreted. Continue reading →

A missing Dutch string should fail the build on the machine that introduced the English one. A catalog entry Xcode has marked stale should fail it too. So should a %d that survived in English and…

How much has Python performance changed from version 3.6 to 3.15? A comparison of ten Python versions across 122 benchmarks shows substantial reductions in execution time for many workloads,…

This program has no unsafe block. It compiles on stable Rust 1.95, and it prints a number from the wrong vector. pub fn main() { let mut a: Vec<u64> = vec![1]; let mut b: Vec<u64> =…

We sometimes need to convert binary data to text. For example, your emails must be stored as text files. Naïvely, you could just use a string of 0 and 1, but it would mean using one character per…

When no one reads the code, Naur would say said project is dead. And yet businesses are building their future on dead code.

Backpressure, AIMD concurrency, and store-and-forward for actors with only local resources. TL;DR: The classic fallacies of distributed computing cover the network miss critical two fallacies: that…

is the first debugging tool most Swift developers reach for, and it works fine until an app ships. Then it quietly keeps running. Every…

Just like my Linux desktop, I want this website to have perfect visual consistency. Each element must match the color palette and they all must fit together. Images, however, have 16 bajillion colors…

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Better than regex!

Eight host bytes fit in one register. The usual has-zero test treats "./" as a clean host, so Ada forces the high bit before it subtracts. A clean kilobyte goes from 1.6 GB/s to 33 GB/s on the tab…

A critical bug in JDK 27 and how it was fixed, some conference news, and how JDK 28 is shaping up

A foray in to a data structure that is probably fun

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I worked on I try to follow updates from T3 Code but with their "nightly" release actually being 3-4 times a day, my email was…

Anthropic recently shared an article explaining a version control system (VCS) that they have been using internally to surmount their own limitations around managing their humongous monorepo.

I've written about benchmarking Voyage and Cohere embeddings and about using Jev in my authoring agent , but I never wrote down how the search and chat in Shoalrun actually fit together, or why I…

I tried a fully autonomous, zero-human-touch software development pipeline using Google Antigravity and Claude Code agents to build my latest side project.

protonctl is a local, read-only MCP server and command-line tool in Rust that lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cowork search and read your Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar on macOS…

Shifting left on the hard stuff: what good design is, why you’d write it down, and how I design with AI while keeping the decisions my own.

OpenScreen 2.1 introduces Off-Menu. The built-in functions stay; next to them, a low-level layer where a coding agent writes the function the editor lacks, through MCP and inside guardrails. Visual…

Finding things, actioning things. Getting on with it.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine. He posed a lot of very thoughtful questions and I had a great time. Please check it out! The lightly edited transcript…

How to tackle your overburdened 'notification' or 'comment' services when they start accumulating everyone else's cruft.

lilly is a terminal text editor written in V, built as an alternative to Neovim. We timed it against Neovim, Helix, Sublime Text and Zed on the same machine. These are the numbers, including the ones…

Tom Preston-Werner's article on README-driven development has aged well in the era of LLMs. AI tools offer powerful automations, but still require quite a bit of steering to produce an acceptable…

Most language choices are made for bad reasons. The last project used it, a conference talk was persuasive, the job description said so, or someone liked the syntax. A language outlasts the…

Converting NFAs to regular expressions by solving linear systems of equations

Grain Set #6 from further down this article. A few years back I wrote an article here on L-systems with granular synthesis. I was rather unsatisfied with it at the time, and today I wince even…

Nezha: smaller, tougher, and less patient with baggage. Nezha is Aiki's smaller, tougher sibling. The name comes from the youthful warrior of Chinese mythology: formidable despite his size,…

Git Time Machine: a filesystem with a past. I have been working on a tool called Git Time Machine (GTM). The idea is simple: instead of thinking of a Git repository as a sequence of commits, treat it…

Building slap5, a five-in-a-row engine in Rust and WebAssembly, and finding out how much work lies between working code and a strong opponent.

Claude Code 2.1.295 adds onFailure "block" to hooks, so a broken guard script stops the action instead of waving it through. Here is a PHP setup.

Open-source digital signal processing and machine learning accelerators are frequently published as student or research projects. While the RTL architecture is often innovative, the surrounding build…

Simplifying Sorting, Filtering, and Pagination in SwiftUI Using HotelQuery

Preface 1.1. Porting Porting NixOS to embedded, or more correctly, non x86_64 devices, can be a difficult task. The difficulty of a port is mainly influenced by these 4 primary factors: The Linux…

Spacing is typesetting's job, not the writer's. This blog lets CSS handle the gap between Chinese and English, and now NetNewsWire does too.

The information in this post is taken from the sources listed in the Sources section at the end of it. If you don’t care about understanding the algorithm and need an implementation now , skip to the…

This is a writeup of the problems my team solved in the Murcia contest, which we were participating in as preparation for SWERC. Those people are way better than us, but we will not give up! The…

When I think about how to introduce "making a website" to others, the guides that I find all look confusing as fuck!

Make queue time, downstream attempts, retry delays, and cleanup share one deadline, with an explicit contract for cancellation and propagation.

I'm currently working on a game that my friend, Wilson, started a while back but never finished. We're trying to recreate a game his uncle used to play…

Remote controlToday’s free time coding addiction brings the last piece of the flow remote control puzzle: a unix socket client/server control interface that allows lots of new party tricks.First of…

An architectural and evidence-bounded analysis of Open Math OS as a possible foundation for Math 2.0.

I've been thinking about the intersection of AI assistants and personal task management for a while. We have these powerful language models that can understand context, summarize information, and…