Wrote an article about the new pattern matching feature in Python 3.10 (coming Oct 2021): benhoyt.com/writings/pytho… #python

A tiny to-list web app I wrote in Go the old-school way (server-side HTML, no JavaScript): benhoyt.com/writings/simpl… #golang #smallweb

AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compiler I made: benhoyt.com/writings/awkgo/ #awk #go

How I optimized my GoAWK interpreter with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine: benhoyt.com/writings/goawk… #golang #awk

I added proper CSV support to GoAWK, my POSIX-compatible AWK interpreter: benhoyt.com/writings/goawk… #golang #awk #csv

"The tools I use to build my website" (because someone asks every so often). Nothing fancy! benhoyt.com/writings/tools…

I translated Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go (back in August): benhoyt.com/writings/rob-p… #golang

Inspired by a Paul Graham tweet, I did a write-up about "microPledge", the Kickstarter-like startup we launched in 2007. A discussion of why it failed and what we learned: benhoyt.com/writings/micro…

I/O is no longer the bottleneck in 2022, and hasn't been for years: benhoyt.com/writings/io-is… #golang #python

We added code coverage support to GoAWK, so you can generate coverage reports for your AWK programs. This was contributed by Ukranian developer Volodymyr Gubarkov. benhoyt.com/writings/goawk… #golang #awk

For Python packages, file structure != API design: benhoyt.com/writings/pytho… #Python

The active proposal to enhance Go's HTTP request router (ServeMux): benhoyt.com/writings/go-se… #golang

Wrote a geeky article on the weekend, "The AWK book’s 60-line version of Make": benhoyt.com/writings/awk-m… #awk #python

Wrote about solving the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) nine times in Go, with run times from 1m45s down to 4s: benhoyt.com/writings/go-1b… #go #1brc

I updated my "Go version performance" article, showing the speed of GoAWK compiled with Go versions 1.0 through 1.22 (including PGO): benhoyt.com/writings/go-ve… #golang #performance

My 2020 review of J. D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" suddenly got 1000+ views on Monday. Via Google, so no doubt from people searching for "review of hillbilly elegy" after Vance's appointment as vice presidential candidate. It's a good book. benhoyt.com/writings/hillb…

My Dad (a pastor and hobbyist programmer) was interviewed on a podcast about his first computers, Forth, and so on: youtube.com/watch?v=_FFRVb… The podcast is eclectic -- retrocomputing, science fiction, comics...

Canonical, where I work, interviewed Andrew Gallant about his popular ripgrep search tool. "R.I.P. grep", ha, I'd never noticed that either! I helped with the interview questions. youtube.com/watch?v=InsUD6…

Al Aho: "I'm the A in AWK" (3 minute video) youtube.com/watch?v=5Zsk5L…