We’ve been building Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts on Shopify, for more than a year. We invested in cutting-edge new technology, like React Server Components, to ensure building on the Shopify platform is a terrific experience for … Read more
Sorry, this post will read like a “dear diary” entry rather than some life-changing HN-worthy guidance. Back in November 2020, almost on a whim I started work on a new parser for the Ruby programming language. It was almost exactly … Read more
I wrote and maintain zig-sqlite, a Zig package that wraps the SQLite C API. Its goals are to use Zig’s features to augment SQLite’s capabilities and provide a idiomatic Zig API. Zig has excellent C interoperability which means using SQLite … Read more
Table of Contents tl;dr – This post explains how I built LoginWithHN.com (LWHN), an unofficial OAuth2+OpenID connect provider for HackerNews. LWHN is for builders who want to share things with the HN audience, and cuts down friction like any other … Read more
Apr. 16, 2020 TL;DR – Designed and built my dream office in my backyard, spent a little over three months working on it, learning tons, making lots of mistakes, going way over-budget, and having a hell of a fun time. … Read more
In this article, I interview Sergei Markov, the chief of the SberDevices experimental machine learning systems department. We talk about one of Sber’s latest projects in machine learning – ruDALL-E, an image generation model. We also discuss the open-source culture … Read more
When we create a new release of Oso, we run 87 different Github actions. Those actions build libraries for 6 different languages and test them on different versions of the language across 3 different operating systems. Oso has libraries for … Read more
February 20, 2015 Built to Last – RSS, HTTP I’m a programmer by trade. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past 17 years doing this professionally, it’s that everything old is new again. There are really only … Read more
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our … Read more
Jack MacDonald was a frugal attorney who wanted to build a big net worth to give to charity. He went a little far for my taste – having holes in his clothes so he could put more money to work … Read more