Disclosure: Bun was acquired by Anthropic in December 2025. I and others on the Bun team work at Anthropic. I used a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 for much of the Rust rewrite. Bun started as a line-for-line port … Read more
A few months ago I read about Anthropic’s experiment of releasing a swarm of agents to write a functioning C compiler and it made me wonder about the feasibility of using that same approach to accomplish something I’ve been dreaming … Read more
Abstract:Transformer training systems are built around dense linear algebra, yet a nontrivial fraction of end-to-end time is spent on surrounding memory-bound operators. Normalization, activations, residual updates, reductions, and related computations repeatedly move large intermediate tensors through global memory while performing … Read more
The problem that started this There’s something odd about the way we run software today. Most containers — the dominant unit of deployment in production — run a single process. One Python script, one Node.js server, one Go binary. But … Read more
You may want to check out what Ferron is doing. I’ve been using it for a few months. Highly recommend. (…) Significantly easier to set up than nginx, and by far the most effortless auto TLS integration. (…) Highly recommend … Read more
My fondness for alternative Haskells It’s often said that the best way to learn a programming language (or programming in general) is to make things that you actively use. After I first learnt Haskell, I thought it natural to try … Read more
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January 15, 2025 This week, I decided to rewrite my website using plain HTML and CSS. When I originally made it, I used SvelteKit for simplicity. It was a more interesting project than I was expecting when I started working … Read more
Assumed Audience: Hackers, Rustaceans, and anyone interested in programming language design. Epistemic Status: Quite confident. The ideas are partially implemented and working. This post is partially an ad! Introduction josephg wrote a post about what he’d like to see in … Read more
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone – which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. … Read more