Stories by birdculture

Branch Prediction

How to use storytelling to fit inline assembly into Rust

A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)

Plan 9's Acme: The Un-Terminal and Text-Based GUIs

Microservices: Shackles on Your Feet

The Compose key is magic

AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier

Race conditions in generated code (tested across 10 models, 5 runs)

Computing in Freedom with GNU Emacs

Secure Communication, Buried in a News App

Tracing $2B in Nonprofit Grants and Lobbying to Uncover Age Verification

Generative AI Vegetarianism

Parametricity, or Comptime Is Bonkers

'Devastating blow': Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

Lobsters Interview with Ngoldbaum

A Snapshotable WASM Interpreter

My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol

Design Tip: Enforcing Constraints Leads to Simpler, More Powerful Systems

C++26 Safety Features Won't Save You

AI should help us produce better code

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