Implementing a garbage collector for the Yar compiler meant scanning the stack without knowing what’s a pointer. Mark-and-sweep, conservative scanning via setjmp, heap growth targeting, and the fun part: making it work when threads are running.
When the Yar compiler couldn’t import code across project boundaries, I had to build a package manager from nothing. Git-based fetching, alias-based imports, content-addressed caching, transitive resolution — and zero registry. Here’s every decision that mattered.
· music
I thought streaming was the ethical upgrade from piracy. Turns out it just made music disposable. Now I buy CDs, pirate FLACs, and actually listen to albums again.
· go
Why I built mokapot — a single Go binary that speaks SQS and SNS well enough for real AWS SDKs to connect without configuration changes. Persistence, filter policies, and the tricky parts of faking a cloud service locally.
Four real examples from recent Go CLI projects — bracketed paste handling, a scripting DSL, safe symlink restoration, and diff truncation — that show how small decisions separate a script from a tool people trust.
What happens when you give an AI coding agent memory that persists across tasks? It stops repeating the same mistakes. Here’s how lgtm and snap use persistent findings, shared context, and self-recovery to close the loop from planning to merged PR.
· web
Build lightweight, reactive toast notifications without React, frameworks, or JavaScript bloat. A step-by-step guide to clean, declarative UI using HTMX, CSS, and a few honest lines of code.
After running my blog on VitePress for over a year, I decided to migrate to Hugo with a custom theme. Here’s why I made the switch and what I learned in the process.
· git
Manage your dotfiles effortlessly: Lnk uses Git to move files into ~/.config/lnk, create reliable symlinks, handle host-specific overrides, and run bootstrap scripts automatically—no more messy bash hacks.
· llm
A refined, step-by-step process for managing larger projects with LLM codegen workflows—response to Harper Reed’s blog post.
