Stories by goranmoomin

std::launder: the most obscure new feature of C++17 (2016)

Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system (2017)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

Debian Git Monorepo

Merkle Trees and Build Systems (2020)

PinchBar: The TouchBar in the Vision Pro

Proposal for C2y: Allow zero length operations on null pointers

Wayland breaks your bad software

Awk as a major systems programming language, revisited (2018)

Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux (2022)

Improving RPC Protocols

Make the Rust compiler 5% faster with this one weird trick

UEFI boot: how does that work, then?

Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Semgrep: Rewriting semantic code search results using LLMs

Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark

Markdown Rendering with Awk

Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter

A Single Div: a CSS drawing project

How to mess with your roommate (2018)

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