Reading List
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A Go question: how do you test <code>select</code> based code?
Summary of reading: October - December 2025
"The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama - while reading this book it occurred to me that domains of study like political sciense must be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Imagine trying to match a model ont...
The SSA Phase
In the previous post , we explored the IR—the compiler’s working format where devirtualization, inlining, and escape analysis happen. The IR optimizes your code at a high level, making smart decisions about which functions to inline and where values should live—on the h...
Books I Read in 2025
Books I read in 2025, in no particular order. Permutation City - Greg Egan Was recommended to me by Alex Matrosov. Mind-bending exploration of consciousness, reality, and virtual worlds. Dense but rewarding.
That mockingbird won't sing: a mock API server in Rust
Faking it till you make it isn’t always the best strategy in life, but it can be a useful one in software engineering. Here’s an easy way to create a local HTTP server for testing Rust API clients.
How to Know If your Software Is Overcomplicated or Oversimplified?
Quick takeaways Complexity comes from two extremes - projects fail both when they’re overcomplicated with unnecessary patterns and when they’re oversimplified for a complex domain Essential vs accidental complexity - essential complexity comes from the domain itself...
Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident
Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors
mdBook is a tool for easily creating books out of Markdown files. It's very popular in the Rust ecosystem, where it's used (among other things) to publish the official Rust book. mdBook has a simple yet effective plugin mechanism that can be used to modify the book output in arbi...
Pop quiz: what time was it?
Here’s a small quiz derived from some incorrect advice from an AI coding assistant. This program prints two timestamps; will they be a. Roughly the same time (ie, the same second)b. Roughly 10 seconds apartc. Something else Answer after the fold