Stories by birdculture

Common Architectures: Monolithic, Distributed, and Serverless

Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules

Sandboxed Claude Code GIF Creator

Clean Code vs. a Philosophy of Software Design

Change is the root of all (evil) bugs

Utopian Scholastic

Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1

A modern guide to SQL JOINs

Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp

Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip

CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI

Win32 on macOS (2019)

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)

Is Tree-sitter good enough? (2022)

SIMD-Optimized Parquet Library in C: Lessons from Thrift Parsing and Bit-Packing

Bespoke Software Is the Future

Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta

Agents need good developer experience too

Darktable Styles Mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations

I switched away from Zig to C3

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