Stories by birdculture

Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System [video]

Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word

How to Ruin All of Package Management

Can Bundler Be as Fast as Uv?

The Second Great Error Model Convergence

Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

Git's HTTP server side design does not scale

MIT Battlecode (programming competition) starts in 1 week

Apache Spark Isn't "Fast" by Default; It's Fast When You Use It Correctly

What does the software engineering job market look like heading into 2026?

Parsing Advances

Every Test Is a Trade-Off

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

When Not to Use Pydantic

Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception?

Building a Reliable Job Scheduler: Leases, Idempotency, and Timezone-Aware Cron

Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)

Fastverse: A Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency R Packages

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