Stories by birdculture

The unwritten laws of software engineering

Arcan: 10 Years of Online Obscurity

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts

What I got wrong about fast terminals

Miasma Supply Chain Attack Toolkit Source Code Leaked on GitHub

Flathub disallows LLM-based submissions

Cache Stampede Prevention: Distributed Locking, Pub/Sub, and Request Coalescing

Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up

Premature Optimization is Fun Sometimes (2025)

Htmx Is So Cool I Rolled My Own (2024)

Hot path optimization. When float division beats integer division

Why Compiler Engineers Avoid Strassen's Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication

Bloom Filter Trick Reduces 170 Object-Storage Reads to One (2.6s → 89ms)

Mold-Desktop

Owning Your Dependencies

JavaNext Language Features

It doesn't always have to be Linux [video]

Memory safety is a matter of life and death

The EU tech sovereignty plan

The Smallest C++ Binary

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