One billion is a large number. It's so large, it is mind-boggling impossible to understand for a human. And yet it's a pretty basic number for computers.

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Hello, and happy new year. Here’s the first issue of links list for 2026, with lots of links because hopefully you’re still in vacation and you have more time to read! 🙂 What happens if we inline ever...

Today I am turning 40 years old. Which, while not exactly great, is better than the alternative, so kudos to me for still being alive! 🎉 I am a pretty lucky person. I was born in one of the best, rich...

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! Lots of articles this time; hopefully some will be interesting to you! Usage of Rust in Android Link to heading Two related articles: the first, from G...

This week I’ve had the pleasure of attending and speaking at RustLab, a conference dedicated to Rust in Florence, Italy. It was only the second conference I’d ever attended, and the first I’d spoken a...

Today I wanna share with you a list of very useful tools and apps that I use regularly. I’m not going to include very popular things such as neovim, VS Code, Claude Code, or Obsidian, but I’ll try to ...

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! More non-technical links than usual this time. Modern sort algorithms Link to heading A very interesting comparison between very data-tailored sort alg...

I have been using the Pest parser generator library for Rust recently in a couple of projects, and I want to talk a bit about a couple of things that weren’t too obvious for me. Pest has really good d...

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! Here are some interesting links I’ve collected recently. Bot or not? Link to heading An interesting collection of techniques used to detect whether an ...

I have been using IntelliJ Idea at work for a decade or so by now, and it’s been a reliable companion. JetBrains IDEs have a bit of a reputation for being slow, but their feature set is incredible: po...

RustLab is an international conference on Rust, held annually in Florence. It features renowned speakers, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities for developers and enthusiasts.

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! It’s been a while, so there are a lot of links this time! Hope you enjoy the selection. Pipelining operators Link to heading An interesting article abo...

Spoiler: this is a rant. 😂 I have tried to write a small side project in modern C++ recently. I wanted to have a proper setup with modern tooling and practices, in part because I wanted to see what th...

In this post, I am following up on the explanation of my simple JIT compiler glorified calculator Emjay and I will show you how I implemented function calls. Why the complexity? Link to heading Imagin...

Today I wanna show off my most recent little project, called emjay. It’s a very simple “language”, with an evaluator that generates JIT code and executes it. It does not have a “normal” interpreter, o...

Hello, and welcome to a new post of Links lists! Hope you enjoy today’s selection. 🙂 Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Link to heading An interesting article about working in larg...

Welcome to a new post in my miniseries about some crazy bugs I’ve had to investigate and debug throughout my career. Quota Link to heading This story is from about three years ago, at a previous job. ...