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Jevons paradox happens when the cost of a resource goes down, but the total spend on that resource goes up.

ZSA, the keyboard company behind the ergodox and the voyager, among others, also have a blog where they interview people using their equipment.

On May 23, 2011, I bought Building Java Programs 2nd edition from bokkilden.no to learn how to program.

After I found that llms are useful, I wanted to get a better feel for what they are useful for.

My static site generator has a quirk: there's no "draft" marker for posts.

ark is my latest personal service, after my own rss reader.

My personal approach to Advent of Code is to do things from scratch.

Herbert Edelsbrunner, Elizabeth Stephenson, and myself had our paper published at DGMM 2025!

Last Friday was my last day at Vind AI.

I think I've had it with the big social internet.

Here's an interesting leetcode-style problem: we are given two points $p_0$ and $p_1$ and a list of $n$ line segments $G=\{g_i\}$ which we call gates.

The ethics1 of LLMs is a contentious topic.

rss is the latest installment in my series of small bespoke services I have written for myself.

I took easter off of work and found time to read two books.

After deploying ppl a few weeks ago I've been continuously adding small features.

ppl is a small webapp for storing contacts.

Lately, I've found myself consuming a lot, and barely producing at all.

Most code editors ship with its own color scheme.

I took a two week vacation where I found a lot of time to read, and during those two weeks I read four books: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos, A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout,

In January 2016 I moved this website from Jekyll to Hugo.

I used to think that simplicity is good because of the other values it often brings: a simple system is easier to write; a simple system is easier to build; a simple system is more portable; a simple system is easier to debug and reason about; a simple sy…

Recently1 at work I found myself with an interesting problem in need of solving.

I'm subscribed to a Substack that I enjoy, but the Substack video player doesn't have any options for adjusting the playback speed of the video.

I have been playing around with LLMs for the past couple of days and decided to try out GitHub Copilot.

Optimizing compilers are really cool!

I spent a lot of time working on a project in which physically plausible simulation of soft materials with pressure chambers was a key part, and in doing so, we managed to improve a part of our simulation by a significant amount.

Let's talk about comptime in Zig. comptime is the feature that allow you to run code at compile time, and is maybe Zig's biggest differentiator from other languages in the same space.

I've been using Mathematica a little bit in the past few weeks to do some simple plotting and symbolic manipulation of equations.

The algorithm and notation is based on section 9.3 of Williamson and Shmoys "The Design of Approximation Algorithms".

Introduction Like most of my colleagues, I use LaTeX to write papers, reports, notes, or what have you.

No affiliation with checkmateposters.com blabla Some weeks ago I saw checkmateposters.com on HN(?).

A quick warning: this isn't one of these "here's the problem, here's the solution, bam bam bam" type of write-ups.

As people are arguing over what to call the default git branch, I started thinking about other words in programming that I now take for granted but that I also remember being very confusing and/or strange when starting out.

I woke up today to my computer not booting into my arch installation, but into memtest86+.

This post is a stream of conciousness from reading comments at this post.

The problem with OOP isn't the "object" part, it's really the "oriented" part.

The developer of the Rust web framework actix is "done with open source"1, as you might have already seen on Reddit2, HN3, Lobsters4, or somewhere else.

Spooktober is upon us and it's been a while since I've written anything here, so here's a short computing ghost story that I experienced a few years back.

I was reading a few pages of Knuths The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A about "branchless computation" (p. 180) in which he demonstrates how to get rid of branches by using conditional instructions.

Most of us have heard the (unfortunately) famous quote from Donald E.

We continue our Common Lisp adventure!

The only exposure that I have to Common Lisp is that I wrote about 1000 lines of it about 4 years ago.

It was friday afternoon and I was working on a proof-of-concept garbage collector for Rust.

Let's talk about abstraction.

Content aware image resizing, liquid image resizing, retargeting, or seam carving, refers to a image resizing technique where one can insert or remove seams, or "paths of least importance", in order to shrink or grow the image.

This is a blog series.

In the past months I have spent the evenings and weekends on a little project: a JPEG decoder and encoder, written in Rust.

We all know that floating point nubmers have a limited precision.

So, what is recursion1 anyways?