Age and Accelerationism

The hunt for the Elixir of Life.

For the first time, a C++ standard failed to pass the national bodies

Local 'minimal viable product that everyone agrees on' tanks the C++ standard.

Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?

It turns out that some issues people have with async Rust are just downstream of hard concurrency problems.

Commodified Intelligence

What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?

Companies suck for different reasons. Don't conflate all of big tech into one blob, reason over companies according to their income streams.

Remaking Party House

You can just do things.

How many options fit into a boolean?

Funny notes on niche optimizations in Rust, and a few updates.

I really like the Helix editor.

'Search & Replace' popup windows are bad user interface design.

The tech interview is a legible, reasonably well-designed process.

Basically a review of 'Seeing Like a State'. And some other thoughts.

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.

Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake?

Yet another article complaining about Go's error handling.

Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)

Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.