My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Recently, people have been asking me why I’m pausing Boo to work on a programming language. I think it would actually be cool to write down how I feel.

Why do people take screenshots of text?

Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts...

I just write here

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You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.

People rant about having to learn algorithmic questions for interviews. I get it — interview system is broken, but you ought to learn binary search at least.

A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.

I’ve had a few conversations about async code recently (and not so recently) and seen some code that seems to make wrong assumptions about async, so I figured out it was time to have a serious chat ab...

Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.

Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time…

Introduction to implementing USB devices. Minimal overview of hardware and software with an example with STM32 microcontroller. Also contains an index to very detailed guides for more information.

A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.

It seems so rude and careless to make me, a person with thoughts, ideas, humor, contradictions and life experience to read something spit out by the equivale...

Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics

When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. It’s surprising how far you can take this piece of advice. I genuinely think…

Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview - akavel/up

/dev/null is web scale

Things are about to get wild

Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

From missing real fireflies to learning basic electronics and building my own blinking "fireflies"

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dwm for Wayland

This was a bit of a ramble, but I had to get it off my chest.

Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped. The most self-defeating way to launch a new product is to over-promise it...

GrapheneOS offers some of the best privacy and security features of any smartphone operating system, but is it too effective at what it does?