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Entries

• Will Software Engineering Survive?
  February 17, 2026

  Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.

• Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
  January 06, 2026

  The current state of app bloat.

• Bits of Open-Source in 2025
  December 25, 2025

  My open-source interactions in the past year.

• Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
  March 09, 2025

  A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.

• A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation
  June 26, 2024

  Figuring out why a seemingly simple floating-point calculation returned a very wrong result.

• Improving Date Formatting Performance in Node.js
  May 21, 2024

  A look at how I was able to improve the performance of date formatting in Node.js and the ICU library.

• Unix is not Linux
  August 21, 2022

  Things to be aware of when discussing the shell and Unix programs.

• Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud
  July 31, 2022

  A short guide to installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.

• A Simple Setup for C and C++
  February 25, 2022

  A few steps to allow quick development and debugging of C and C++ programs.

• How to Break Software
  March 08, 2021

  A guide on how to break software with no special tools.

• A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows
  February 14, 2020

  A guide to compiling C programs on Windows, with all the gotchas in one place.