20 random bookmarks

2025-08-25

130.

Everything I know about good API design

www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design

2025-06-20

Reposted 122.

Cursed Knowledge | Immich

immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Things we wish we didn't know

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.

2025-04-24

105.

Instrumenting Axum projects

determinate.systems/posts/instrumenting-axum

2025-01-07

96.

Write your own tiny programming system(s)!

d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/nprg077

2024-10-24

85.

Rust Prism

registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/rust-prism

2024-09-16

73.

Technical Writing One introduction

developers.google.com/tech-writing/one

2024-08-15

66.

Planning Weekly Workouts in 100 lines of Haskell

alt-romes.github.io/posts/2024-08-14-planning-a-workout-week-with-100-lines-of-haskell.html

A lightning post on logic programming in Haskell to construct a workout weekly schedule given the set of exercises, days and constraints.

2024-07-03

59.

Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files

samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files

2024-06-27

56.

plainweb

www.plainweb.dev

plainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.

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.

2024-06-18

39.

Understanding a Python closure oddity

utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/UnderstandingClosureOddity

2024-06-14

32.

Putting Go's Context package into context

blog.meain.io/2024/golang-context

2024-06-13

26.

The magic of dependency resolution

ochagavia.nl/blog/the-magic-of-dependency-resolution
16.

Avoid Linux locking up in low memory situations using earlyoom

dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-09-28-earlyoom.html

This article presents the program earlyoom to prevent a Linux system to lock up in low memory situations.

15.

OpenBSD extreme privacy setup

dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-08-openbsd-privacy-setup.html

In this article, you will learn how to install and configure OpenBSD to reduce its network activity over clearnet

14.

Optimal SQLite settings for Django

gcollazo.com/optimal-sqlite-settings-for-django

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

2024-06-11

7.

NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro laptop

www.idatum.net/netbsd-10-on-a-pinebook-pro-laptop.html

I've been running NetBSD on a RockPro64 since NetBSD 10-BETA, and I'm still happy with it now with NetBSD 10-RELEASE. I'm always looking for hardware to hack NetBSD though, and I recently watched a FOSDEM 2024 video: NetBSD 10: Thirty years, still going strong!. The Pinebook Pro laptop was mentioned at one point, which has the same RockChip SoC as the RockPro64. That reminded me I'd been wanting to give this inexpensive ARM 64 laptop a try.

6.

Go evolves in the wrong direction

valyala.medium.com/go-evolves-in-the-wrong-direction-7dfda8a1a620

Go programming language is known to be easy to use. Thanks to its well-thought syntax, features and tooling, Go allows writing easy-to-read…

Hard disagree on this one, but still interesting.

2024-06-10

5.

Modern IRC Client Protocol

modern.ircdocs.horse

Living specification of the IRC protocol. Does not include brand new behavior, just existing behavior present in IRC software and/or networks (new extensions are IRCv3's area).