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Over the past few nights I've been tinkering with the Zig build system, after it got a bit of a rework lately.

I have no intention to use any part of Microsoft GitHub's Copilot.

In 2023 I learned about (GNU) make's .ONESHELL.

This blog now has sidenotes.

Rust is experimenting with compile-time reflection in the form of type_info (Tracking issue #146922).

In March 2018 I started a job as a Telemetry engineer at Mozilla.

Back in May 2025 Fatoni, Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju released their new collaboration album BAWRS.

A /uses page still does not exist, so let's update the list.

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.

This article is cross-posted to the Data@Mozilla blog.

The other week I read a blog post about a bytebeat player in Zig.

In the previous blog post I showed how to use getaddrinfo_async_start from C.

On *nix systems the default way to resolve a hostname into an IP address is getaddrinfo.

(This article is cross-posted on the Data@Mozilla blog.)

Go read April Cools' posts today.

Back in 2015 when I was learning Rust I started rdb-rs, a library and tool to parse the Redis database file format (known as RDB).

In March 2018 I started a job as a Telemetry engineer at Mozilla.

I have not finished my /uses page, but following Sascha's post, here's my list: Mail Client: Thunderbird Mail Server: Postfix + Dovecot Notes: Obsidian, Scratch1 To-Do: Obsidian iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera, NightCap Photo Management: Apple Photos, Sigal,

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.

As I mentioned before I've been playing around with Lil and I like it so far.

This post won't include too much explanation.

Recently I read Hillel Wayne's article about his texttools.py implementation.

At the moment I'm using a web-based RSS feed reader1.

I built a thing: Hare Playground And this is what it looks like:1 It's an online playground for the Hare programming language.

They say projects are not finished until you write about them.

Just over a week ago I played handball for exactly 1 minute and 54 seconds.

Another year went by, so that it's now been 6 years since I joined Mozilla as a Telemetry engineer, I blogged every year since then: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Looking back at the past year it sure was different than the years before, again.

sqlelf lets you explore ELF objects through the power of SQL.

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.

Everything old is new again.

This blog post is in more raw form than previous blog posts.

The other day I had to deploy an old Ruby 2.7 application.

ssh-keyscan: fdlim_get: bad value That's the error message I got the other day when I was trying out some project.

I can't believe it's already my fifth Moziversary.

As I'm starting to use Mastodon more and more, I'm also learning more about how the underlying ActivityPub protocol works1.

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.

Every year Advent of Code happens.

Everyone and their dog is getting on ActivityPub.

Back in 2018 I handed over maintenance for various (hi)redis projects to different people.

Yesterday the HYTRADBOI conference happened.

It's my fourth Moziversary.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

The Firefox for Android (Fenix) project runs extensive tests on every pull request and when merging code back into the main branch.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work.

Funday!