I have bad writing habits, which is to say “writing habits” that mean I’ve spent fifteen years barely writing at all—and now my husband, Jake, who is my best editor and most ardent cheerleader, is being killed by a squamous … Read more
August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python, after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when … Read more
This post will show you how to use D to write a bare-metal “Hello world” program that targets the RISC-V QEMU simulator. In a future blog post (now available) we’ll build on this to target actual hardware: the VisionFive 2 … Read more
View on Github Star on Github In the following series of blog posts I will document my attempts to write Linux modules using the Ada language. I am not a professional and my knowledge of the Linux kernel and gnat … Read more
Writing a package manager is not one of the most common programming tasks. After all, there are many out-of-the-box ones available. Yet, somehow I’ve found myself in exactly this situation. How so? I’m a big fan of SQLite and its … Read more
Large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT triggered a remarkable societal and computational shift that feels comparable to the impact from the initial internet era with its first impressive search engines like Google. LLMs are the toast of the town. Writing … Read more
10 May 2020 Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the type annotations. Listen, I didn’t plan on making a whole ‘writing X like Y’ series. But here we are. I’ve recently been working on a new project … Read more
Debuggers are one of the most valuable tools in any developer’s kit. However, although these tools are in such widespread use, there aren’t a lot of resources which tell you how they work and how to write one1, especially when … Read more
This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler: You’ll learn about abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and how programs can represent and manipulate other programs. Handy for … Read more
I started programming in Rust several years ago, and it has gradually changed the way I design programs in other programming languages, most notably in Python. Before I started using Rust, I was usually writing Python code in a very … Read more