Stories by birdculture

Algorithmically Generated Crosswords: Finding 'Good Enough' for NP-Complete

Dumbphone journey – eight month update

Reducing OpenTelemetry Bundle Size in Browser Front End

Lua 5.5 Released: Global Variable Declarations and Garbage Collection

Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am (2024)

The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed

You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility

Constvector: Log-structured std:vector alternative – 30-40% faster push/pop

The Inner-Platform Effect (2006)

Is MCP Overhyped?

Go feature: Modernized go fix

Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident

Romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for Various Processors

Google's Boomerang Year: 20% of 2025 AI Engineers Were Former Employees

A Love Letter to Raycast

I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man

Sandboxed Claude Slack GIF Creator

Host overhead is killing your inference efficiency

Booleans don't exist in Ruby (2022)

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