We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. (A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013.) In this post I’ll walk you through the process I took to debug it. I tried to write down relevant details as they came up, so see if you can guess what the bug is while reading along.

This web app displays notes and slides in separate windows,
keeping both synchronised.
It accepts simple, double-width, or double-height PDF presentations:

There are a lot of guides about how to use async Rust from a "user's
perspective", but I think it's also worth understanding how it
works, what those async blocks actually mean.

Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.

I recently wrote about Async Pool, one of my favorite JavaScript / TypeScript helpers, and today I want to share an even simpler yet extremely useful utility

This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language. Each post is a small tutorial and includes all needed code.

A fun, hands-on guide to writing your own compiler for a real-world programming language.

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Using systemd to avoid having to write some risky code

Aurora: An extensible, Python-based static site generator.

There’s plenty of information out there on how to scale Django to handle numerous requests per second, but most of it…

From Erlang, to Elixir and now, GLEAM!?

Rust and Node aren't bad for encouraging dependency use -- your favorite language's tools just suck.