Pointers Gone Wild

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I'm Looking for My Next Role #Programming #Tech #Jobs
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Sep 16, 2026
Plush's New Register-Based Interpreter Is Insanely Fast #Programming #Compiler #Interpreter
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Sep 2, 2026
Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster #RustLang #Performance #Compilers
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Aug 25, 2026
Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector #Programming #Software #Tech
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Aug 17, 2026
Building Groovie, an Advanced Web-Based Drum Machine / Beat Sequencer #Programming #WebDev #AudioTech
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Aug 6, 2026
The Hard Part Isn't Technical #Programming #Tech #Essays
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Jul 23, 2026
I Want to Build a Sandboxed, Cross-Platform Software Distribution System #Software #CrossPlatform #OpenSource
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Jul 14, 2026
Building a Clang Backend and Porting Doom to my Custom Bytecode VM #Programming #Compiler #RetroGaming
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Jul 7, 2026
The AI Safety Paradox #AI #Safety #Tech
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Jul 3, 2026
Dependencies are a Liability #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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May 11, 2026
A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields #ComputerGraphics #Algorithms #Rendering
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Mar 6, 2026
Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language #Programming #Compiler #SoftwareDevelopment
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Nov 29, 2025
Optimizing the Plush Interpreter for Faster Raytracing #Programming #Compilers #Raytracing
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Oct 12, 2025
Out-Fibbing CPython with the Plush Interpreter #Python #Compiler #Interpreter
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Aug 6, 2025
Creating a Toy Programming Language with Actor-Based Parallelism
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Aug 3, 2025
AI Safety in the Presence of Multiple ASI Systems
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Jul 4, 2025
Yes, We Do Want Humanoid Robots
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Apr 12, 2025
My Low-Tech Attempt to Automate Spellchecking
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Mar 6, 2025
So I Rolled My Own Static Site Generator
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Jan 10, 2025
The Alternative Implementation Problem
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Apr 20, 2024
The Race to Make Humans Obsolete
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Apr 7, 2024
Human-Scale vs Asymmetric Social Media
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Dec 24, 2023
Preparing UVM for 3D Graphics
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Nov 1, 2023
Software Bugs That Cause Real-World Harm
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May 29, 2023
Memory, Pages, mmap, and Linear Address Spaces
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Mar 12, 2023
Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine
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Feb 24, 2023
Typed vs Untyped Virtual Machines #Programming #Compilers #VirtualMachines
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Jun 8, 2022
Minimalism in Programming Language Design #Programming #Software #Design
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May 23, 2022
Democracy, Dictatorships and Access to Information #Democracy #Information #Technology
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Mar 6, 2022
NoiseCraft Project Update #Programming #Software #Tech
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Feb 18, 2022
Code that Doesn't Rot #Programming #Software #Tech
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Feb 11, 2022
The Internet Changed My Life #Technology #Programming #Essays
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Jan 19, 2022
What's Could You Use Tesla Bot For? #Robotics #AI #Technology
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Jan 8, 2022
NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music #Programming #MusicTech #OpenSource
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Dec 5, 2021
YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby #Programming #Compiler #Ruby
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Jun 2, 2021
Investing is a Social Phenomenon #Investing #Economics #SocialScience
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Feb 21, 2021
On Insurmountable Technical Obstacles #Programming #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 7, 2021
Combatting Pessimism: 3 Keys to Innovation #Innovation #Technology #Programming
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Dec 1, 2020
The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Sep 22, 2020
Maybe Planets are Overrated? #Programming #Tech #Essays
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Jan 3, 2020