Rob Pike's Programming Rules Are Still Right
In 1989, Rob Pike — who would later co-create Go, UTF-8, and Plan 9 — wrote down five rules of programming. They're short enough to fit on an index card and...
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CPU Branch Prediction: Your Code's Hidden Bottleneck
There's a famous Stack Overflow answer that's been viewed over 3 million times. The question: why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an...
Scroll Fade Is a UX Antipattern and You Should Stop Using It
You've seen it on every marketing site, SaaS landing page, and portfolio built in the last five years. You scroll down the page and content fades in from...
GPU-Accelerated Terminals: TTYs to Glyph Atlases
In 1978, Digital Equipment Corporation shipped the VT100. It was a piece of furniture — a CRT in a beige enclosure, wired to a minicomputer via serial cable....
Python's JIT Compiler Is Finally Happening
Python has been 'too slow' for as long as Python has existed. The standard response from the Python community — 'use C extensions for the hot loops' — has...
When WebAssembly Isn't Faster Than JavaScript
Last month I spent a Saturday rewriting a Rust-to-WASM image metadata parser in TypeScript. The WASM version had been in production for eight months. It worked...
Why jemalloc Matters: Memory Allocation at Scale
Every time your program calls malloc(), something has to decide which chunk of virtual memory to hand back. This decision — trivial for a small program —...