Stories by birdculture

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

Ancient Greek Geometry

Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes to Midnight

Understanding Database Transactions and Isolation Levels

Show HN: Twine – A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems

Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs

Play the Monty Hall Game

Writing an NES Emulator in Haskell

RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast

TIL: Serde's borrowing can be treacherous

Versioned Cache Keys Can Save You During Rolling Deployments

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