Stories by goranmoomin

Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta

Hand-written Windows API prototypes: fast, flexible, and tedious

Retrowin32: Async, DLL loading, tracing execution, and Zig

Hard Mode Rust: Writing Rust without any dynamic memory allocation

SIL: A high level IR for Swift to complement LLVM [pdf]

The Rust Compilation Model Calamity: Designed for Slow Compilation Times

Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (a.k.a. Stylo)

I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

Rejuvenating Autoconf

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly

Sampling vs. Tracing: The limitations of sampling profilers

itappmonrobot: The stop-gap solution of the server room

Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders [pdf]

End-user malleable software in the age of LLMs

Hacker News was inaccessible for an hour

Textra: High-quality OCR text extraction in the command line

Gnome Software and PostmarketOS: a bumpy road

Augmented Reality Ski Goggles

macOS troubleshooting in the age of macOS Security

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