Stories by birdculture

My Nix Config Is Intimate

Rust debugging survey 2026 results

The Shortest IPv6 Addresses

Demystifying Complex Configurations

"Hammock Driven Development" (2010)

Why front ends fail when you approach them like a back end

NetBSD 11 from Scratch

From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits

Debian Code Search: Fast TurboPFor with Go SIMD

Python Iceberg

Federated Stars (2024)

Souping Up My Blog

Dirty Coding Tricks, part 3

Terence Tao on "Solving Maths Problems Prematurely with AI Methods

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

Zopt: Low-ceremony command line parsing for Zig

Knowing Where to Type 'Zero' (2015)

Jank reimagines C++ errors and gets an official native package repo

Deft: A gradual type system for Janet

The Nix sandbox is a hidden input

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