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The Internet Changed My Life
2022-01-19
NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music
2021-12-05
YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby
2021-06-02
They Might Never Tell You It's Broken
2019-11-02
(Spread)sheet Music: Making a Simple Music Sequencer using CSV Spreadsheets
2018-05-20
Minimalism in Programming
2018-02-18
D's Garbage Collector Problem
2014-09-10
Turing Drawings
2012-12-31

Archive

Yes, We Do Want Humanoid Robots
2025-04-12
My Low-Tech Attempt to Automate Spellchecking
2025-03-06
So I Rolled My Own Static Site Generator
2025-01-10
The Alternative Implementation Problem
2024-04-20
The Race to Make Humans Obsolete
2024-04-07
Human-Scale vs Asymmetric Social Media
2023-12-24
Preparing UVM for 3D Graphics
2023-11-01
Software Bugs That Cause Real-World Harm
2023-05-29
Memory, Pages, mmap, and Linear Address Spaces
2023-03-12
Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine
2023-02-24
Typed vs Untyped Virtual Machines
2022-06-08
Minimalism in Programming Language Design
2022-05-23
Democracy, Dictatorships and Access to Information
2022-03-06
NoiseCraft Project Update
2022-02-18
Code that Doesn't Rot
2022-02-11
The Internet Changed My Life
2022-01-19
What's Could You Use Tesla Bot For?
2022-01-08
NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music
2021-12-05
YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby
2021-06-02
Investing is a Social Phenomenon
2021-02-21
On Insurmountable Technical Obstacles
2021-02-07
Combatting Pessimism: 3 Keys to Innovation
2020-12-01
The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development
2020-09-22
Maybe Planets are Overrated?
2020-01-03
It's Been Done Before
2019-11-05
They Might Never Tell You It's Broken
2019-11-02
Balancing Fun, Stress and Profit
2019-10-19
Zupiter: a Web-Based Modular Synthesizer
2019-10-06
The End of Online Anonymity
2019-06-10
MiniWorld: A VizDoom Alternative for OpenAI Gym
2019-01-29
A Small Dose of Optimism
2018-12-17
Building a Simple Self-Driving Car Simulator
2018-05-21
(Spread)sheet Music: Making a Simple Music Sequencer using CSV Spreadsheets
2018-05-20
Minimalism in Programming
2018-02-18
My new Job in RL & Robotics Research
2018-01-28
We All Live in a Bubble
2017-12-04
The AI Risk Isn't What You Think
2017-10-20
Zeta's JITterpreter
2017-06-12
ZetaVM, my new compiler project
2017-04-29
Technodiversity
2017-01-14
The Brain's Registers
2016-12-22
Method Call Syntax in a JS-like Language
2016-11-23
So, I've been using gedit this whole time
2016-11-18
My Experience with the ESP8266 - Making an LED Strip I can Control from my Shell
2016-09-25
Silicon Valley, Six Months Later
2016-09-21
Optimizing Ray Marching through Partial Evaluation
2016-05-09
Sense from Chaos - Crossing the Semantic Gap
2016-03-23
Moving to the Valley
2016-02-24
Building a Small-Scale Prototype
2016-02-04
Exercise, Depression and the Energy Hypothesis
2016-01-07
Musings on AOT, JIT and Language Design
2015-11-28
Have Static Languages Won?
2015-11-25
Why I Chose Industry Over a Postdoc
2015-11-15
The Robotic Revolution
2015-11-08
There's Too Many Programming Languages!
2015-10-06
Basic Block Versioning - My Best Result Yet
2015-09-24
All Hope is Not Lost for Flying Cars
2015-09-15
Why You Should be a Little Scared of Machine Learning
2015-09-12
What Killed Smalltalk?
2015-08-20
JavaScript is the C++ of the Web
2015-08-02
All Possible Thoughts
2015-07-30
Feels like Censorship
2015-07-27
Presented at ECOOP
2015-07-10
Typed Shapes Paper Submitted
2015-06-22
Maybe we ought to have Numerical Coprocessors?
2015-05-25
The AI Breakthrough that Won't Happen
2015-05-10
The Smart Web is Coming
2015-05-07
The Problem with HTML
2015-04-16
What is Intelligence?
2015-04-15
Basic Block Versioning - Published At Last!
2015-03-18
My Thesis: A Clearer Picture
2015-02-08
Visit to Northeastern University
2014-12-11
The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web
2014-11-14
Pushing Higgs to the Limit
2014-11-10
Circumventing the D Garbage Collector
2014-10-26
Audiobooks are Awesome
2014-10-23
Faster than V8 *
2014-09-17
Making Waves: D's GC Problem Followup
2014-09-11
D's Garbage Collector Problem
2014-09-10
Dogfooding Higgs with the Turing Turtle
2014-07-19
My Paper was Rejected Again
2014-07-17
The Constness Problem
2014-07-11
News of Higgs
2014-05-08
Positive Results for Higgs
2014-04-10
How I Hacked my Stationary Bike and Voided its Warranty
2014-03-20
Higgs: Upcoming Talks & New Contributions
2014-02-03
Accelerating Real-Time Path Tracing
2014-01-28
Contribute to the Higgs JS Compiler
2014-01-08
Tile-Based Image Compression
2014-01-03
The Incremental JIT Lives
2013-12-10
Alan Turing: The Enigma - A Book Review
2013-12-06
The Electric Mirror
2013-12-05
Higgs: the First JIT Compiler of its Kind
2013-10-31
übertechnoshoes
2013-10-21
Static Typing may not Scale
2013-09-24
Down the Rabbit Hole that is Inlining
2013-08-29
Higgs: Rise of the SSA JIT
2013-08-14
Sometimes a datum is just a datum
2013-07-22
Programming without Text Files
2013-07-20
On Holistic Programming Languages
2013-07-20
How I miss you, dear SSA
2013-06-20
Inlining in Higgs
2013-06-03
PSA: Caffeine is a Drug
2013-05-28
Turing Drawings Followup
2013-05-15
Presented at DConf 2013
2013-05-10
Progress on the Higgs JIT
2013-03-31
A Simple JIT Compiler
2013-03-04
Back from Silicon Valley
2013-02-20
Visiting Mozilla
2013-01-31
Higgs has a Garbage Collector
2013-01-22
More Fun with Turing Machines
2013-01-03
Turing Drawings
2012-12-31
Higgs has Exceptions
2012-12-18
Sky Blue
2012-12-13
Higgs: My New Tracing JIT for JavaScript
2012-12-09
Static vs Dynamic: Why not Both?
2012-11-10
Debugging by the Seat of the Pants
2012-10-24
Dynamically Adjusting LCD Brightness with Ambient Light
2012-09-29
Some Glues Don't Mix with Electronics
2012-09-25
The AVR Alarm Clock is Complete
2012-09-24
Short Update on toyCPU
2012-07-25
toyCPU Project Update
2012-07-19
Designing a toy CPU
2012-07-13
A Radical Introduction to Programming
2012-07-10
An Inexpensive Robot Platform
2012-06-22
Why Do Most New Languages Fail?
2012-06-07
Loebner Contest makes Turing Roll in his Grave
2012-05-15
We Should be Sequencing the DNA of Endangered Species
2012-05-09
MusicToy - Music Made Simple
2012-04-23
The Indirection Problem
2012-04-20
Why LISP Never Took Off
2012-04-11
Inefficient Numerical Operators
2012-04-02
Teaching Computers about Music
2012-03-30
Game Development: Toying with CSG and WebGL
2012-03-09
Are Variadic Functions Necessary?
2012-02-27
Stop Hating on C!
2012-02-23
Venturing into Electronic Music
2012-02-09
Exporting MIDI Files using Data URIs
2012-01-31
Try my Web App: Melodique, a Procedural Melodic Phrase Generator
2012-01-29
Algorithms Making Music
2012-01-21
About Tachyon's Garbage Collector
2012-01-12
Two HDTVs for my Media PC
2012-01-12
Tachyon's Design Principles
2012-01-07
Tachyon has a Garbage Collector!
2011-12-17
Type Analysis for JavaScript
2011-12-12
Good News for JavaScript! Bad News for Me...
2011-11-29
Progress on the Überclock
2011-11-14
Metaprogramming for JavaScript
2011-11-01
What I'd like to Know about JavaScript Programs
2011-10-31
Code Compactness and Optimization Levels
2011-10-31
Presented at DLS 2011
2011-10-25
Toying with Microcontrollers Part Deux
2011-10-12
Optimizing Global Value Numbering
2011-10-07
What's Next for Tachyon
2011-10-04
Toying with AVR Microcontrollers
2011-10-04
New x86 Backend and... JavaScript Macros?
2011-09-28
My Masters Research: Just-In-Time Specialization
2011-09-23
Just Passed my Predoctoral Exam
2011-09-20
Predoctoral Exam
2011-09-11
Artificial Life in your Web Browser!
2011-08-29
The Tachyon JavaScript Compiler
2011-08-27
Hello world!
2011-08-27

In total, 162 blog posts were published since inception.

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