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A few years back, I came across Robert Graham's wc2 repository on GitHub. wc2 is an implementation of the Unix wc command that is significantly faster than the existing GNU and BSD wc implementations. It achieves its speed by using something called a stat

Everyone knows the classic print("Hello World") program they might have written when they first started learning programming. Recently, I saw a meme version of it , where instead of print("Hello World") , it's HelloWorld("print") accompanied by Elliot fro

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I have an open source project which uses GitHub Releases as its binary distribution platform. I have a GitHub actions workflow which builds the Rust project using cargo , creates an installer and creates something called a "build provenance attestation",

I've recently been working on an app which uses Expo , a framework for React Native. It actually has a pretty nice developer experience, abstracting away many of the ugly parts of app development. For the project, I needed to rely heavily on native APIs,

I've been learning a lot about low-level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or 'single instruction, multiple data') code. I've seen a lot of articles about having massive performance ga

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I wanted to reduce the number of dependencies in my Rust project, and I noticed that the rust-i18n crate has a lot of dependencies (a whopping 46 of them). Since I didn't really have that many translations and they didn't need any special logic, I figured

I recently saw a bunch of videos about simple particle simulations where there are thousands of tiny 2D balls interacting with each other, and it looked very fun! I wanted to do something very similar, but I also wanted to use Zig, a language that I haven

It's the time of year to start sending some summer job applications again. And is there a better way to procrastinate improve the job searching experience than to generate the CV from simple markup with Typst? Typst is new 1 a typesetting system similar t