The story of x86 SIMD is simply not about technology. It’s about marketing, corporate politics, engineering compromises, competitive pressure. This is the behind-the-scenes history of how Intel and AMD battled for vector supremacy, the controversial decisions that defined an architecture, … Read more
13th February 2026 As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly describe the organization’s mission or most significant … Read more
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The history of computing can be viewed as a steady progression toward more intuitive human-computer interaction. Each new era has broken down barriers, allowing more people to harness computational power without specialized technical knowledge. Artificial Intelligence isn’t a radical departure … Read more
Evolution Mail’s “Load Remote Content” option, as a privacy protection feature doesn’t work. They know it doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked for years and there is no sign it will be fixed any time soon. I discovered the other day … Read more
For the last few years, I’ve been developing caching library, and today I’d like to talk about the evolution of caches in Go and where we stand today. Especially since Go 1.24 was officially supposed to focus on caching improvements, … Read more
I recently attended RustWeek (which was totally awesome) and the talks by Alex Crichton (on the history of Rust) and Pietro Albini (on the importance of error messages) inspired me to do a little archaeology into the way Rust compiler … Read more
Recently I have been working on projects that integrate Elixir with native code in C and Rust. One of the Rust libraries defines the following struct (with fields removed for simplicity): struct Schema { name: CString, format: CString, metadata: Option, … Read more
The top image shows the structural editor, and shell, for the eyg programming language running on a phone. Later on I’ll show it running on a TV. On both devices the structural editor is a better coding experience than a … Read more
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route … Read more