- Applying the lessons of the Golang scheduler to the Tokio scheduler in Rust
- Speeding up Nixpkgs by avoiding subshells
- Pessimism about engineering software
- The Racket programming language is heading in a new direction
- Ben Lynn’s “most functional compiler”
- Someone tries TLA+ and comes away impressed
- Something recommended by a co-worker: CMU 15-721, a course on Advanced Database Systems
- Matt Godbolt (of Compiler Explorer) on “why C++ isn’t dead”)
- Urbit is here
- Comparing APL and C (!)
- Remembering the era of Flash
- Clojure at “the immutable bank”
- Zen and the art of software maintenance
- Shareware and floppy disks …
- Reminiscing about different versions of Microsoft
- I recently discovered all the different “server-less options in GCP”
- Looking back at the first version of Redis, written in … wait for it … in Tcl !!
- A periodic reminder about microkernels
- Why text editing is so hard to implement
- (Re-)Assembling the Apollo Guidance Computer (!)
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