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2026 2

  1. I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed
  2. I don't care that it's X times faster

2025 1

  1. Composition: the feature I've wanted in Flox since I joined the company

2024 5

  1. proctrace - a high level profiler for process lifecycle events
  2. Evaluating a process manager
  3. April Cools 2024: Physics Edition
  4. How I finally installed NixOS
  5. Today we launched Flox 1.0

2023 2

  1. Nix journey part 1: My grand unified theory of Nix documentation
  2. Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials

2022 2

  1. Bitmask tables
  2. Optimization story - quantum mechanics simulation speedup

2020 4

  1. Using notifiers to give yourself the day off
  2. Interacting with Assembly in Rust
  3. Property-based testing in Rust with Proptest
  4. How to build a dice roller service in Rust

2019 1

  1. Polsim - a case study for small-scale scientific computing in Rust

2018 3

  1. Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations
  2. Using Python's asyncio with serial devices
  3. Introduction to Procedural Macros in Rust