The Thermodynamics of Silence: Why Quiet People Emit a Cold Aura

Little weekend project: running raylib on emacs, as in, within emacs, with emacs lisp! It was fun, made wavy text :)

A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles. How to write Makefiles without using GNU extensions such that they work on every POSIX compliant system (BSD, MacOS, etc.) nullprogram.com/blog/2017/08/2…

Talk: The C++ Execution Model by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach If you ever wondered how C++ code runs on your machine, Bryce’s talk breaks down the C++ execution model - covering memory, order of operations, and what happens with threads. youtu.be/XBiYz7LJ3iQ

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You might feel like you're running out of time, but the real issue is likely mental energy. You sit down to work, but starting feels impossible. After an hour or two, you are emotionally drained, so you escape to YouTube for funny videos. Refreshed but guilty, you return to

Going live with Zed tomorrow to talk about how I integrate AI into my daily workflow. We’re going to go through a real commit and will have live Q&A too!

After hearing this a lot: "no debugger = no Zed"—we’re excited to share that Zed's Debugger has finally launched! 🎉 zed.dev/debugger

This is required material for any software engineer to understand CPU performance optimization. Yes, it's about Instruments, but the patterns and lessons here are invaluable in general. It does highlight why Instruments is imo best in class, though. developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww…

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I published another blog post on simple optimizations that allowed me to double the performance of my interpreter and beat CPython on the recursive fibonacci microbenchmark: pointersgonewild.com/2025-08-06-out…

Launching my Programming Language Pragmatics talks! These short, accessible talks cover the material in the textbook, the 5th edition of which I wrote with Michael L. Scott. The first one (link in 🧵) introduces the topic and talks about why we study programming languages!

Released today: the second video in my Programming Language Pragmatics series, covering Compilation, Interpretation, and Environments! Link below. Going forward, I'll post a video 3 times a week. Please share the series with anyone who might benefit!