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32 from 28 Feb 2024 to 14 Sep 2026
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2026 14

  1. Worms Are Hip: Hijacking the GPU
  2. Between the Graph and the Silicon: Inside the Apple Neural Engine Compiler
  3. First-Principle Mojo: KGEN, MLIR, and What a Compiler Chooses to Remember
  4. LLVM for the Rest of Us
  5. When the Batch Is Already One: ShardTensor and the Cost of Dividing the World
  6. Between the Idea and the Silicon: Learning Why MLIR Exists
  7. When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery
  8. The Zen of Parallel Programming: The Posture of a Kernel
  9. The Zen of Parallel Programming: The Big I and the Global Sum
  10. The Zen of Parallel Programming
  11. Wedding Thank You Cards
  12. I Built Ralphex This Weekend
  13. From Enlightenment to Alignment
  14. Thank You: The Origin Story of the App

2025 15

  1. SmolFinance’s Storage Layer
  2. SmolFinance
  3. detached reservation: Cold Heart
  4. detached observation: Evaluation Phase
  5. detached observations: Semantics Phase
  6. Looking for Seeds
  7. detached observations: Parsing Phase
  8. Thankless, is Mother
  9. detached observations: Dequeue Phase
  10. detached observations: Enqueue Phase
  11. Grievance of Time: System Calls We Never Authorized
  12. detached observations
  13. The Illusion of Time, the Overflow of Being
  14. The Smol Chef: Return to the Classroom
  15. Less Scared

2024 3

  1. Slash and Burn
  2. Recovery is The Compiler for Thank You.
  3. Fine Tuning Perceptions