In 2018, I wanted to describe how the components of databases, distributed or not, were being commoditized as individual parts that anyone could recombine into use-case specific engines. Given your own constraints, you can leverage those components to build…

I talk with Andrew Kelley and Ginger Bill about the position of classical languages in the textual programming paradigm.We talk about what makes a programming system suited to the native computing layer, interfaces for constructing software, visual programming…

Is another programming revolution possible?

A post/question about formal grammars, wherein I search for a good formalism for describing infix
expressions.

One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked.
Convert external sources to motivation…

Let's Destroy C. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Let me tell you why you should (nearly) never use PEG (parsing expression grammars). Nearly everything I will say applies to parser combi...

A C program that writes "hello, world!" to the console using inline assembly instead of standard library functions, demonstrating direct system call invocation.

An app for scaring away malware

wingolog: article: static single assignment for functional programmers

(Thanks to Amit Sahai for spurring me to write this post!) The Background We all remember Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem from kindergarten.  This is the thing that, given a formal syste…

Using Ekko to sort of bypass Hunt Sleeping Beacons