2025-09-29
stupid jj tricks
andre.arko.net/2025/09/28/stupid-jj-tricksWelcome 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.
2025-07-31
A dive into open chat protocols
wiki.alopex.li/ADiveIntoOpenChat2025-06-13
What I talk about when I talk about IRs
bernsteinbear.com/blog/irsI have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important.
2025-05-23
honk
humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk
Take control of your honks and join the federation.
An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs.
Spend more time using the software and less time operating it.
2025-05-15
Speculation in JavaScriptCore
webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcoreThis post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.
2025-04-24
Instrumenting Axum projects
determinate.systems/posts/instrumenting-axum2025-02-04
Running a Debian Sid on Ubuntu
blogops.mixinet.net/posts/incus2025-01-09
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests
mtlynch.io/if-got-want-improve-go-tests2024-10-16
Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways
bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference2024-09-30
On Leaving Apple
typesanitizer.com/blog/leaving-apple.html2024-07-03
Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files2024-06-26
A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference
reasonableapproximation.net/2019/05/05/hindley-milner.html2024-06-20
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-bad-rep2024-06-19
Avoiding complexity with systemd
mgdm.net/weblog/systemdUsing systemd to avoid having to write some risky code
2024-06-17
OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon
hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/openbsd-the-computer-appliance-maker-s-secret-weaponBetween our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. Picture a bespoke Pi 4 packaged up neatly with some Python scripts, a little fancy plastic embossing, and maybe a well-guarded id_ed25519.pub in case you end up in hot water during the (long - very long, stable cash flow for generations long) maintenance contract, and you’re in the ballpark.
2024-06-13
The magic of dependency resolution
ochagavia.nl/blog/the-magic-of-dependency-resolutionMacaroons Escalated Quickly
fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quicklyAn easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map
nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/302024-06-12
My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust
ceronman.com/2021/07/22/my-experience-crafting-an-interpreter-with-rustLast year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …