Stories by goranmoomin

On Generics and the Associated Overheads

Incentives Behind Programming Languages

Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators

The Apple event format needs its “iPhone X” moment

Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood

The Case for Nushell

SwiftUI is convenient, but slow (2022)

C++ Papercuts

KDL: A Document Language with XML-Like Semantics

Copy and Paste Libraries

Cling: Beyond Just Interpreting C++

Economies of Scale Working Backwards at Google

Writing a Package Manager (For SQLite)

Five Years of LLM Progress

Swift 5 switches from UTF-16 to UTF-8 (2019)

How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]

System settings that aren’t in System Settings

Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback

OpenBSD's Embargoes Handling

Group Messaging's Balancing Act: Design tradeoffs in small group social medium

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