Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-11:	The problem with nondeterministic garbage collection
2013-12-02:	What Go has become for me: Python with performance
2013-11-14:	One reason I like Go: it seems natural to avoid object churn
2013-11-11:	Go's getopt problem
2013-10-26:	10G Ethernet and network buffer sizes (at least on Linux)
2013-10-14:	The importance of small UI tweaks (for me), dmenu edition
2013-10-11:	Some pain points of parsing wikitext (and simplifications that avoid them) How DWiki parses its wikitext (part 1)
2013-09-22:	An example of optimizing C in the face of undefined behavior
2013-09-15:	Regular expression performance and performance folklore
2013-08-26:	An example GNU Readline quoting function
2013-08-25:	Adding basic quoting to your use of GNU Readline
2013-08-15:	My understanding of modern C undefined behavior and its effects
2013-08-13:	You should convert wikitext to HTML through an AST
2013-08-07:	Understanding how generators help asynchronous programming
2013-07-29:	A consistent preference in APIs for kernel and other low-level APIs
2013-07-28:	The constraints shaping kernel APIs
2013-07-15:	Git's petty little irritation for me
2013-07-10:	Knowing when to go your own way with open source programs
2013-06-28:	The limitations of not actually knowing a language
2013-06-12:	UI details that you don't expect to can matter a lot
2013-05-31:	Understanding the MongoDB code that people are laughing at
2013-05-27:	Understanding SQL placeholders
2013-05-15:	Why I've so far been neglecting functional programming languages
2013-05-13:	My language irritations with Go (so far) and why I'm wrong about them
2013-04-15:	Go's friction points for me (and a comparison to Python)
2013-04-03:	How to make sysadmins unhappy with your project's downloads
2013-03-25:	My (current) view of using branches in VCSes
2013-03-18:	The wrong way for a framework to lay out projects
2013-03-03:	Why a netcat-like program is a good test of a language Go: when I'd extend an interface versus making a new one
2013-02-21:	Go: using type assertions to safely reach through interface types Some notes on my first experience with Go
2013-02-19:	The source of C's dependency hell for linking
2013-02-10:	A little irritating (but understandable) limitation on Go interfaces
2013-01-18:	More on my favorite way of marking continued lines
2013-01-16:	My favorite way of marking continued lines
2013-01-11:	A thought about static linking and popularity
2013-01-03:	An alterate pattern for polymorphism in C
2013-01-02:	Some patterns for polymorphism in C

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