Stories by birdculture

The State of Chez Scheme in Debian

Epipe on write might mean you're doing it wrong

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

Faster floating point math with Rust's new API

Accepting a Messy Git History

Understanding Raft Leader Election by building from scratch

NIST Develops New Standards to Safeguard Computers Against Quantum Threats

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

Guix shell now inside Emacs

The Wheels We Keep Reinventing

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

The Bedrock of Software Design

Stripe Just Wants a Number

How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

Private Data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal

Full flattening of nested data parallelism

The Paradox of Fancy Tooling

Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs

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