Tinkering

Now that I have your attention, let's break that down a little bit.

Yeah, this is a rant.

Yes, this post is going to be about Flox, my employer, but this isn't an advertisement.

proctrace is a profiler that runs on top of bpftrace (for now) and traces the execution of a process tree rooted at a user-provided command.

At Flox1 we recently released a feature that we call "service management", which is essentially an analog to Docker Compose that runs processes instead of containers.

Ghost triggers This particular experiment was driven by a laser that periodically spit out pulses that were 5ns long.

I've been in the Nix world for about a year now, I work at a company that uses Nix daily, and it was only last week that I finally installed NixOS on the PC that I've been meaning to install it on for close to a year.

Intro A little over a year ago I was working full time as a software engineer while finishing my PhD in physics (you're probably already questioning my judgement, please keep reading).

The Highlights These are the talks I'm most proud of: NixCon 2025 - You can't spell "devshell" without "hell" RustConf 2023 - Async Building Blocks: A Streaming Data Drama in Three Acts NixCon 2025 - You can't spell "devshell" without "hell" This talk is a

Update 2023-11-19: This series is effectively dead.

The story before the recipe I've been following the Nix project for a while but now that I'm done with my PhD I finally have some free time and energy to try using it in earnest.

At $WORK I have a need to create some bitmasks over a 64-bit field.

Click here for tl;dr and spoilers I wanted to make a physics simulation 100x faster.

In keeping with the title, this will be a short post.

Note: I originally wrote this article for LogRocket.

Note: I originally wrote this article for LogRocket.

Note: I originally wrote this article for LogRocket.

Let's get this out of the way: polsim is a command line utility for doing polarization simulations.

Introduction The desire to bring macros to Python came from my experience with Rust's procedural macros, so we're going to talk about Rust for a second.

I'm an experimental physicist, so part of my job entails writing software that orchestrates equipment in my experiment.

As a newcomer to Rust, I heard the phrase "procedural macro" thrown around a lot without really understanding what it meant.

Hi, I'm Zach.