For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths of code for us. But AI … Read more
2025-07-20 What do I think the ideal array language should look like? The fundamental units of computation available to users today are not the same as they were 20 years ago. When users had at most a few cores on … Read more
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done? Published February 13, 2025 “It would feel so good to say goodbye, when I’m with you I wanna die!” Typically you would try to time your footsteps to the beat of the song—a … Read more
Illustration: Kyle Ellingson for Penguin In November 2022, a BookTok member reading Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, asked, “Why did no one warn me about how long these chapters are? Over 600 pages and it’s only 8 chapters? … Read more
Twitter user ekse has graciously translated this blog to Chinese. Thanks! TL;DR: By the end of this essay I hope to convince you of the following facts. First, that modern desktop operating systems are anything but. They are bloated, slow, … Read more
You might be thinking “800px is way too small for desktop”, which if we were measuring screens, you would be right. We’re measuring viewports here though. A viewport is the window size of the browser, not the screen size. If … Read more
It all started with this toot from Aurynn. do I just need to put one screen in portrait mode? In the past I had experimented with using portrait displays for reading and programming. The ability to display large amount of … Read more
Writing Rust is pretty neat. But you know what’s even neater? Continuously testing Rust, releasing Rust, and eventually, shipping Rust to production. And for that, we want more than plug-in for a code editor. We want… a workflow. Why I … Read more
I am not an economist, but in light of current events with cryptocurrencies and the economy in general, I would like to share my thoughts on some kind of ideal economy, around which everything is happening now. In order to … Read more
The division instruction is one of the most expensive instruction in your CPU. Thus optimizing compilers often compile divisions by known constants down to a multiplication followed by a shift. However, in some lucky cases, the compiler does not even … Read more