Stories by birdculture

Host overhead is killing your inference efficiency

Sōzu HTTP Reverse Proxy

Everything Async, Nothing to Await: Automatic Concurrency in Par

A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua

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

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