It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. … Read more
The C++ standard library (also know as the STL) is, without a doubt, an astounding piece of work. Its scope, performance and incredible backwards compatibility have taken decades of work by many of the world’s best programmers. My hat’s off … Read more
Archives Categories Blogroll I’m still chugging through chapter 3 of Sebastian Raschka‘s “Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)“. Last time I covered causal attention, which was pretty simple when it came down to it. Today it’s another quick and … Read more
Archives Categories Blogroll This is the eighth post in my trek through Sebastian Raschka‘s book “Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)“. I’m blogging about bits that grab my interest, and things I had to rack my brains over, as … Read more
DSLs, or domain specific languages, are programming languages that are designed to implement a set of features specific to a particular problem or field. An example could be Make, the build tool, which is a specially designed language for combining … Read more
Why I’m Writing a Scheme Implementation in 2025 (The Answer is Async Rust) by Matthew Plant This blog post is an introduction to scheme-rs. I really love Rust. I’ve been using it as my language of choice for about ten … Read more
Writing a GIMP 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes 2025-02-12 GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I’m thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways: It … Read more
The Rust language ecosystem is growing each day, its popularity increasing, and with good reason. It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time, with a powerful and rich build system (cargo), and a growing … Read more
In our simple implementation, we will declare a Chunk type with a fixed size. In a more general implementation, we would use a chunk size specified by the programmer at runtime, but that method adds a lot of casts, and … Read more
The Weekend Essay Writing as Transformation Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged. By Louise Glück January 4, 2025 Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook Save this storySave … Read more