20 random bookmarks

2025-10-17

136.

Automerge

automerge.org

Automerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast.

2025-09-29

135.

stupid jj tricks

andre.arko.net/2025/09/28/stupid-jj-tricks

Welcome to “stupid jj tricks”. Today, I’ll be taking you on a tour through many different jj configurations that I have collected while scouring the internet. Some of what I’ll show is original research or construction created by me personally, but a lot of these things are sourced from blog post, gists, GitHub issues, Reddit posts, Discord messages, and more.

2025-09-23

134.

Cap'n Web: A new RPC system for browsers and web servers

blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library

Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.

2025-08-25

130.

Everything I know about good API design

www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design

2025-06-18

120.

zb beta released

www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06/zb-beta-release

zb is a tool for reproducibly building software, similar to Bazel.
(See the comparison page if you’re curious to know the differences.)
When a software build process is reproducible,
it will produce the exact same output
when given the same inputs.
Reproducibility is a desirable property for a software build process to have:
it simplifies debugging,
it enables build speed-ups,
and it is essential for digital supply chain security.
However, reproducibility is a difficult goal to achieve.

2025-06-12

116.

Always do Extra

www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.php

Extra is different than More. Extra is finishing those two screens, but then researching a new library for form validation that might reduce the boilerplate code. Or it's learning ways to protect against common security vulnerabilities from data entry. These little off-ramps from the main highway of Normal Work could be dead-ends and not have any practical value to the project. But they might also be important contributions. And that's the thing with Extra. While the tangible value to the project is uncertain (it could be nothing this time or it could be something), the value to you is real.

2025-05-15

109.

Speculation in JavaScriptCore

webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcore

This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.

2024-12-17

91.

Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS

sailor.li/aocnds.html

Solving AoC on the DS with Rust.

2024-11-20

88.

On "Safe" C++

izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx

2024-10-10

82.

'Do' More With 'Run'

maxgreenwald.me/blog/do-more-with-run

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

2024-08-08

63.

More than 200 orphaned Debian packages moved to git, 216 to go

www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/More_than_200_orphaned_Debian_packages_moved_to_git__216_to_go.html

2024-06-26

55.

A (more) Modern CSS Reset

piccalil.li/blog/a-more-modern-css-reset

2024-06-24

52.

Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting Optimized for Purely Functional Programming

arxiv.org/abs/1908.05647

Most functional languages rely on some garbage collection for automatic memory management. They usually eschew reference counting in favor of a tracing garbage collector, which has less bookkeeping overhead at runtime. On the other hand, having an exact reference count of each value can enable optimizations, such as destructive updates. We explore these optimization opportunities in the context of an eager, purely functional programming language. We propose a new mechanism for efficiently reclaiming memory used by nonshared values, reducing stress on the global memory allocator. We describe an approach for minimizing the number of reference counts updates using borrowed references and a heuristic for automatically inferring borrow annotations. We implemented all these techniques in a new compiler for an eager and purely functional programming language with support for multi-threading. Our preliminary experimental results demonstrate our approach is competitive and often outperforms state-of-the-art compilers.

2024-06-21

49.

On testing Go code using the standard library | Henrique Vicente

henvic.dev/posts/testing-go

Most programming language ecosystems provide assert functions in their testing libraries but not Go's. Go's standard testing package follows a more direct and to-the-point approach.

2024-06-19

44.

Aurora - Python Static Site Generator

aurora.jamesg.blog

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

42.

Pimalaya

pimalaya.org

Official website of the Pimalaya project.

2024-06-18

41.

Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp

2024-06-17

37.

Sqlc: 2024 check in — brandur.org

brandur.org/fragments/sqlc-2024

2024-06-13

25.

Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation

hirrolot.github.io/posts/sat-supercompilation.html

2024-06-09

2.

Piku

piku.github.io/index.html

piku, inspired by dokku, allows you do git push deployments to your own servers, no matter how small they are.