tef's tech posts: an index

Index post

Polemics 🔗

Stuff that’s more about programming as a whole:

• how not to write a pipeline
• replication: now you have two problems
• complex simple good bad code
• abstraction, more than a miserable pile of secrets
• zero cost abstractions in a language called crabby

RPC notes 🔗

• restful is a scam, but browsers are cool
• why i think rpc sucks ass
• i need to trick one rust user

Rants 🔗

Shorter posts with advice, complaints, and some analysis too:

• things i don’t like about git
• every so often i think “i really hate semver”
• python3 in hindsight, and i have a time machine
• free advice for hobbyist gamedevs
• let’s talk about command line programs
• api design mistakes, more api design stuff

Notes 🔗

Infodumping:

• fast and slow reference counting
• research notes: rank/select datastructures
• dynamic crimes in golang
• structural builders
• lock free datastructures in rust
• how myers diff works
• arson, a json variant
• i wrote a parser generator, again