Extending C with Prolog (This is an expanded version the text of an article which appeared in the August 1994 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. Please do not copy or distribute without acknowleging Dr. Dobbs Journal. The original article referred … Read more
After watching this year’s EmacsConf and seeing Guile Emacs being resurrected I thought to myself – why limit ourselves to Guile? Sure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design. Other languages exist for Guile VM, such … Read more
Can we extend the XOR trick for finding one or two missing numbers in a list to finding thousands of missing IDs in a billion-row table? Yes, we can! This is possible using a data structure called an Invertible Bloom … Read more
Extending Python with Rust Sometimes a pure Python script can’t just deliver the performance we need. When that’s the case we have to resort to writing our logic in a “fast” compiled language like C or Rust and expose the … Read more
Recently I’ve been building a tool (cl-ownpress) which will make blogging a zero-effort activity for me. First step in this is to publish a subset of my notes. I have already built a habit of judiciously taking notes. Simply publishing … Read more