Next post Previous post After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash Wednesday. I was surprised that the … Read more
If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests … Read more
March 12, 2026 We’re thrilled to announce the stable release of Vite 8! When Vite first launched, we made a pragmatic bet on two bundlers: esbuild for speed during development, and Rollup for optimized production builds. That bet served us … Read more
I read a lot on the web. I almost never look at websites, though. I consume almost everything through an RSS reader. As AI reshapes the way online information is organised and consumed, it increasingly feels like I’m behind the … Read more
2026-02-28 (Programming) (Rants) There are a lot of nice programming languages, but files always seem like an afterthought. You usually only get read(), write() and some kind of serialization library. In C, you can access files exactly the same as … Read more
Rust is Just a Tool Blog Talks Contact 4 Feb 2026 I like Rust. It’s versatile enough that it can be used for application and systems programming. It has the best tooling of any language I’ve seen. It has a … Read more
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The Om language is: a novel, maximally-simple concatenative, homoiconic programming and algorithm notation language with: a trivial-to-parse data transfer format. unicode-correct: any UTF-8 text (without byte-order marker) defines a valid Om program. implemented as a C++ library and: The Om … Read more
