I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type … Read more
Given my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, … Read more
by Michael Lynch, published June 25, 2025 A release announcement showcases how the user’s experience is better today than it was yesterday. That sounds obvious, but most release announcements seem to forget that there’s a user at all. So many … Read more
This post details my recent efforts to write an optimized matrix multiplication kernel in CUDA using tensor cores on a NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. The goal is to compute $D = alpha * A * B + beta * C$, … Read more
by Michael Lynch, published March 27, 2025 I recently spoke to a developer who tried blogging but gave up because nobody was reading his posts. I checked out his blog, and it was immediately obvious why he didn’t have any … Read more
This is a short appreciation post about Rust continuously guiding me towards doing The Right Thing™. Google Summer of Code 2025 is just around the corner, which means that a bunch of new contributors started sending pull requests to various … Read more
For those of us with woefully average gray matter, our minds have limited reach. For the past, they are enthusiastic but incompetent archivists. In the present, they reach for the most provocative fragments of ideas, often preferring distraction over clarity. … Read more
Archives Categories Blogroll While laid up with a minor but annoying medical issue over the last week, I’ve blogged more than usual. I’ve also spent some time reading through the archives here, and come to the conclusion that the best … Read more
I encourage you to start publishing your thoughts on a regular basis. Don’t overthink it. Start small. Just pick an existing platform and start writing short posts. If it helps, get drunk, choose a pseudonym, and post anonymously. That’s what … Read more
In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface, there was a short-lived meme where users gave the LLM a base image and kept asking the model to … Read more