Stories by birdculture

Aho-Corasick Algorithm

Pining for Arc Downcasting in Rust

CoW – a stacking window manager for Wayland

Zero-Growth Stack, Real Gains: How Stack Allocation Can Save 10% CPU in Go

Syncing Rust GCC back end or how to test Murphy's law

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report

Rickrolling with a Pharmacy Cross

Example.com Got Modernized

I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong

Understanding NvPCRs in Systemd v262

LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026

Expert Asterisks

Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec in Beta for Low Latency Streaming

Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip

How a Zig IDE Could Work

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS

>1B tokens/minute/GPU by combining query planner and inference engine

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