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Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly YouTube link (please let me know if the iframe doesn't work for you) Good morning Berlin! How're you doing this fine morning? I'm Xe and today I'm gonna talk about something that I'm really excited about: WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a compiler target for an imaginary CPU that your phones, tablets, laptops, gaming towers and even watch

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic Published on 05/15/2022, 901 words, 4 minutes to read Heroku was catalytic to my career. It's been hard to watch the fall from grace. Don't get me wrong, Heroku still works, but it's obviously been in maintenance mode for years. W

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Crimes with Go Generics Published on 04/24/2022, 2295 words, 9 minutes to read Go 1.18 added generics to the language. This allows you to have your types take types as parameters so that you can create composite types (types out of types). This lets you get a lot of exp

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Bashing JSON into Shape with SQLite Published on 01/04/2022, 1561 words, 6 minutes to read It is clear that most of the world has decided that they want to use JSON for their public-facing API endpoints. However, most of the time you will need to deal with storage engin

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. "Open Source" is Broken Published on 12/11/2021, 1232 words, 5 minutes to read or: Why I Don't Write Useful Software Unless You Pay Me Recently there was a massive vulnerability found in a critical Java ecosystem package. When fully weaponized, this allows attackers to

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Fun with Redirection Published on 09/22/2021, 2335 words, 9 minutes to read When you're hacking in the shell or in a script, sometimes you want to change how the output of a command is routed. Today I'm gonna cover common shell redirection tips and tricks that I use eve

Minicompiler: Lexing Published on 10/29/2020, 1577 words, 6 minutes to read I've always wanted to make my own compiler. Compilers are an integral part of my day to day job and I use the fruits of them constantly. A while ago while I was browsing through the TempleOS source code I found MiniCompiler.HC in the ::/Demos/Lectures folder and I was a bit blown away. It implements a two phase compiler fr

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Rust Crates that do What the Go Standard library Does Published on 09/27/2020, 2614 words, 10 minutes to read One of Go's greatest strengths is how batteries-included the standard library is. You can do most of what you need to do with only the standard library. On the

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Recently I've been starting to use Rust more and more for larger and larger projects. As things have come up, I realized that I am missing a good reference for common things in Rust as compared to Go. This post contains a quick high-level overview of patterns in Rust an

How I Start: Rust Published on 03/15/2020, 1923 words, 7 minutes to read Rust is an exciting new programming language that makes it easy to make understandable and reliable software. It is made by Mozilla and is used by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and many other large companies. Rust has a reputation of being difficult because it makes no effort to hide what is going on. I'd like to show you how I s

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. Or: A Trip Report from my Satori with Rust and Functional Programming Software is a very odd field to work in. It is simultaneously an abstract and physical one. You build systems that can deal with an unfathomable amount of input and output at the same time. As a job,

Compile Stress Test Published on 10/03/2019, 1754 words, 7 minutes to read This is an experiment in blogging. I am going to be putting my tweets and select replies one after another without commentary. shitty synthetic benchmark idea: how long it takes for a compiler to handle a main function with 1.2 million instances of printf("hello, world!\n") or similar — Cadey Ratio 🌐 (@theprincessxena) Oct

The Cult of Kubernetes Published on 09/07/2019, 2062 words, 8 minutes to read or: How I got my blog onto it with autodeployment via GitHub Actions. The world was once a simple place. Things used to make sense, or at least there weren't so many layers that it became difficult to tell what the hell is going on. Then complexity happened. This is a tale of how I literally recreated this meme: This is

Exclamation If you're looking for someone like me on your team, I'm available. Check my resume and get in touch if you're hiring. How to Use User Mode Linux Published on 07/07/2019, 4416 words, 17 minutes to read User Mode Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to itself. This allows you to run a full blown Linux kernel as a normal userspace process. This is used by kernel developers for testing driv

V is for Vaporware Published on 06/23/2019, 2301 words, 9 minutes to read V is a programming language that has been hyped a lot. As it's recently had its first alpha release, I figured it would be a good idea to step through it and see if it lives up to the promises that the author has been claiming for months. The V website claims the following on the front page: The compiler compiles 1.2 million

Fri May 31 2019 Video My Speaker Notes Hi, my name is Christine. I work as a senior SRE for Lightspeed. Today I'm gonna talk about something I've been researching and learning a lot about: WebAssembly on the server. Something a lot of you might be asking: what is WebAssembly? WebAssembly is very new and there's a lot of confusing and overly vague coverage on it. In this talk, I will explain WebAss