Stories by birdculture

Lua can be a cool HTML templating engine

Security issues found within rust-coreutils

Same algorithm, 16x faster: optimizing a vector search engine's hot path

Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Due to Burden of AI-Driven Bug Reports

CPU Has More Registers Than You'd Think

Java Virtual Threads: The Pinning Problem and the Fix in Java 24

Multiple things can be true at the same time

The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)

I found an old telephone and made it control Spotify

Sloppy Copies

Gleam gets source maps, 1.16.0

Hire based on the conversation about code, not the code itself

Performance of the Wren Programming Language

Wsl9x: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

AI as a Fascist Artifact

Single-pass palette refinement and ordered dithering

GitHub Actions Key, but Resources Allocated to Other Areas

Surely there must be a way to make container secrets less dangerous?

Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)

Message Queue vs. Task Queue vs. Message Broker: why are these always mixed up?

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