Stories by birdculture

Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)

Dockerlings: Learn Docker in Your Terminal

GitHub Project Search and Discovery

Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

FFM – Java's new approach to interop with native code

Godbolt's Rule

Microservices: Microliths as a Resonable Alternative

Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

Jonathan Blow on programming language design [video]

Things I don't like in configuration languages

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

ELI5 Explanation of the CAP theorem

Don't Post Passive-Aggressive Webpages

Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API

The politics of purely client-side apps

The AI water issue is fake

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

Just a Reminder: The Health Risks of Sitting More Than 8 Hours a Day

One-Second Voice-to-Voice Latency with Modal, Pipecat, and Open Models

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