Stories by alex_hirner

Python, Catastrophic Regular Expressions and the GIL (2013)

Mtime comparison considered harmful (2018)

Strings RFC

A little whimsy copter based on a PCB frame

Things you can do with ZeroTier

N-Sphere

Integrating a Rust module into an Android app

Dirty Nix flake quality-of-life hacks

Building WiX v4, the saga, part 1 (2021)

Anatomy of a terminal emulator (2021)

A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool

Some direnv best practices (2019)

Install Vulkan on a Raspberry Pi 4

So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?

Compressed GPU texture formats 3/3

A Prolog like syntax for egg

Proving a Theorem with Rust and Egraphs

Patching until the COWs come home

All Pythons are slow, but some are faster than others

Designing Hierarchical State Machines Using Frame Notation

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