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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/02/2026

defer in Zig is the most underrated feature in systems programming Readable cleanup > clever destructors

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/11/2025

... and yet, I fish by Canadian Softball is a wild ride.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/11/2025

Been using jj for a week now for personal projects and I think im finally figuring out a workflow that I like enough to start using it for the day job as well. Feels good.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 13/10/2025

Flutter is a fantastic platform, but it needs better stewardship than Google imo. Flutter web still feels like alpha software

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 13/10/2025

@steveklabnik.com fallthough claims you’re chronically online, is that true?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/10/2025

The onion or not, the Ruben is one of my favorite sandwiches

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/10/2025

Fun little thing with the new Reader/Writer interfaces in Zig. Streaming the contents of a Reader into a Writer while omitting the line that starts with a value (`self.value`). Feels clean to me, but I'm ready to be humbled. is there a better way?

$An image of zig code with the following syntax: pub fn deleteBookmark( self: Bookmark, writer: *std.Io.Writer, reader: std. Io. Reader, ) while (!std.mem.eqlu8, reader.peek(self.value.len), self.value)) reader. streamDelimiter(writer, "\n"); reader streamRemaining (writer); }$

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 08/10/2025

This is my Zig trick of the week. Doing this in your main or root.zig will make sure that when you run zig build test, all of your tests will run (some exceptions apply -- tests inside of a struct for example). zig build test not running all tests drove me crazy. Here's my fix.

An image of code in the Zig programming language. The file assumes to be a main.zig or root.zig with the key element being a test block at the bottom of the file who's only line of code is std.testing.refAllDecls(@This());

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/10/2025

I've been exploring Microzig lately and... tbh, the documentation is a little lacking. Have you built anything cool with Microzig? I'd love to help catalog your blogposts/videos/tutorials/etc! Lemme know!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 30/09/2025

@fallthrough.fm latest episode is one of my favorite. Really nice chat with Kris and Matt about a ton of relevant topics. I agree with the Gophercon sentiment. It felt off this year and that was a bummer.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 11/09/2025

Shoeyyyy! I am already tired of typing this. 😆

Zig code using the new pattern for writing to standard out. Involves creating a buffer, creating. stdout writer, and grabbing the interface from the writer to get a handle to stdout.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 10/09/2025

So my airpods "seamlessly" switched between devices (which means they didnt do it seamlessly and were a pain in the ass) but my Sony XM5s can connect to multiple devices at the same time. Stop music on one device, start music on the next and it works perfectly.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 10/09/2025

When I first started programming, I wanted to build an ORM to learn more about how they work and to have built an ORM (of course). I started looking at how Hibernate works because I was mostly writing Java and Holy Cow, I am shocked none of my peers stopped me and suggested literally any alternative

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 30/08/2025

“What if they have JS disabled?” JS is the least of your problems. I’m out here trying to figure out how to disable HTML when I visit your site

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 28/08/2025

I had an awesome time at Gophercon and am so grateful to the new connections made! Thank you all; I’ll see ya’ next time!

“Welcome Gophers” sign. The sign itself is an illustration of Gophers in New York doing stereotypical New York things. For example, a Gophers is driving a taxi, there is a billboard for the Broadway play “Wicked” but the characters have been replaced with Gophers.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 28/08/2025

Have you built something on @atproto.com ? I wanna know what you’ve built!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 27/08/2025

It’s Gophercon time! If you’re at the conference and see me, please stop me and say hello! I’d love to catch up!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/08/2025

I had the delightful opportunity to talk with Loris Cro (VP of Community, Zig Software Foundation) about Zig’s upcoming reintroduction of Async into the language. I was a bit skeptical of the implementation, but my conversation with Loris left me very excited! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9wW...

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The Zig Async IO Interview with Loris Cro, VP Community at Zig Software Foundation

YouTube video by Code With Cypert

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 02/06/2025

Observations after a few months with BlueSky. I was shit at posting on Twitter and I’m shit at posting here. I never know what to share and what not to, so if you’re seeing this, what do you? Post everything? Post nothing? Post sometimes but filter yourself? Post on brand?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 02/05/2025

I’m proud to say I have 15 real friends.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 02/05/2025

I bet I can specify the market conditions for you

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 14/04/2025

Instead of the CIA overthrowing regimes and establishing democracy in foreign countries, maybe they try to do that with our country instead.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 11/04/2025

What’s an acceptable turnaround time for an open source PR into a large, actively maintained codebase? I’ve had a PR open to Zig for almost a month now, and it’s been sitting for weeks with no interaction from the team.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 23/03/2025

@emidoots.com Thanks for all you do with Mach! I really like what I've seen so far from it! As an aside, your personal github readme has a link to meow.army which takes you to a not-found icloud collection. Was hoping to see some cute kittens :(

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/03/2025

Hit my first payout as a YouTube partner. Only seems fitting to give it back to the Zig Software Foundation. More corporations should fund open source software, and while I can’t make that happen, I can take their ad money and put it to a good cause.

Two images side by side. The left is a screenshot from YouTube studio, indicating a content creator payout for $101.99. The right is a screenshot of donation history to the Zig Software Foundation, dated 3/20/2025. The donation total is $104, with $102 going to the Zig Software Foundation and $2 going to Every.org (the donation platform used by the Zig Software Foundation).

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GitHub @github.com · 28/02/2025

"Incoming transmission!" 📡 Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation! Read more: ea.com/games/comman... Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 23/02/2025

Another year, another “No reasonable accommodations in walking distance” for Gencon. It seems we’ve outgrown Indy, as much as it pains me to say it.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 23/02/2025

@karlseguin.com hey Karl! I’ve been doing a lot of Zig programming lately and just wanted to thank you for your libs and the treasure trove of knowledge on your blog!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 26/01/2025

Nice little Easter egg while reading through some docs 😁

Zig code including a function for setting up user data, which includes adding users to a map. One such user has the first name of “Your” and the last name of “Mom”.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/01/2025

This may sound silly, but I’m very proud of the “No unresponded comments” piece.

Cropped screenshot of YouTube studio showcasing channel analytics for the CodeWithCypert channel, which has 84 comments in the past 28 days and no unresponded comments.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/01/2025

Anyone an expert with FFMPEG that’d be willing to help me out? I’ve got a script that I’m calling out to via Flutter and I’m sure there’s a way to optimize it, but I’m not sure what it is. ffmpeg -i $file -filter:v crop= 1920:1080:1920:0 And doing the same for 1920:1080:0:0 youtu.be/SMx3c-1a_R0

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Building a Flutter Desktop app to help with my video editing

YouTube video by Code With Cypert

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/01/2025

I converted a small CLI that I had written in TypeScript/Deno to Zig! Here’s why, and my thoughts on the rewrite! 🧵

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 26/11/2024

I love working with Svelte. Here’s a tutorial where we build, from start to finish, a simple habit tracker web app in 45 minutes. youtu.be/-D5-kUhY1pQ?...

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75Soft Challenge Habit Tracker with Svelte 5 and Runes

YouTube video by Code With Cypert

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 22/11/2024

Little known fact about me: I teach people about programming and software development on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/@codewithcyp... It’s a lot of Go, TypeScript, Svelte, Deno, and Flutter at the moment, but I just like sharing my knowledge around this type of stuff!

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Code With Cypert

Learn new and exciting techniques and patterns in JavaScript, Dart, Golang, and much more!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 22/11/2024

Somehow my BlueSky algorithm is mostly game devs, and I’m here for it. It’s awesome seeing everything you all are working on!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/11/2024

I’ve spent a little over a week on Bluesky and I’ve gotta say, I like it here. People seem kinder and I feel like my input is appreciated, which just feels great!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/11/2024

Do you have a favorite philosopher or philosophy? I’d love to hear about it! I resonate pretty heavily with some of the teachings of Seneca, with a favorite being “if a man knows not to which port he’s sailing, no wind looks favorable”

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/11/2024

Come hang out, lovable people!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 15/11/2024

Did you know that if own a domain, you can set your Bluesky username to that domain? You can follow the steps in “Settings” => “Change Handle” to get started

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