Software Development
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Effect Systems: Type-Level Side Effects, and Whether Mainstream Languages Will Ever Adopt Them
A function’s type can already say what it returns. Effect systems ask it to say what it does on the…
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The Halting Problem’s Practical Shadow
Why static analyzers, linters, and even the Java compiler’s own exhaustiveness checking all live under the same hard ceiling. Every…
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Hardening GitHub Actions with Least Privilege
GitHub Actions has become a core part of modern CI/CD pipelines. It can build software, run tests, publish packages, create…
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Rethinking Memory: Arena Allocation vs. Garbage Collection in Modern Systems
For decades, software development has been polarized into two distinct camps when it comes to memory management. On one side,…
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Beyond the Browser: Is WebAssembly Ready to Rule the Server?
For years, WebAssembly (Wasm) was neatly pigeonholed as the secret sauce of the browser—a clever performance hack that allowed heavy…
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Zig’s Comptime and the Case Against Hidden Control Flow
Metaprogramming without a second language: no preprocessor, no macros, no separate mental model to learn. Zig’s own homepage states its…
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SQL Window Functions: The Decades-Old Feature Most Application Code Still Ignores
Standardized in 2003. Pioneered in 1998. Still missing from a huge share of the code that could use it. Ask…
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Fortran’s Second Life Inside Modern Scientific Computing
A 1957 language, still underneath NumPy, still underneath climate models, still underneath the machines that rank the world’s fastest supercomputers.…
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Pony’s Reference Capabilities: Data-Race-Free Actors Without Locks or GC Pauses
A type system that lets actors share mutable memory by pointer, not by copy, and still guarantees no two of…
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