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One of the key features that makes Scheme such a powerful language is the support for powerful macro transformations.

At the end of 2021 GitHub pages deployments moved to using GitHub actions.

I’ve finally dragged this blog into the 21st century with the addition of Dark Mode.

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of a good parser.

A quick and easy recipe for the flapjack I miss from the office.

An interesting discussion on error recovery with the nom parser combinator in Rust has been sitting on my “To Read” list for a few months.

Compilers are generally split into three stages: syntax, semantic, and emit.

As a sidetrack from the development of my programming language I’ve spent some time developing a LISP.

A neat feature of the Option<T> type in Rust is that it implements the From<T> trait.

I’m a long term Emacs user.

I previously wrote about creating a custom authentication middleware in ASP .NET Core.

I’ve been spending most of my time recently performance profiling and optimising one of our main services.

During some performance testing of an application a colleague and I had trouble processing more than 150 requests per second per instance.

There are two sides to the auth story in ASP .NET Core: authentication and authorisation.

Rust is one of my favourite languages.

In WPF the PasswordBox control does not expose the password it contains through data binding.

At work I’m paid to write C#.

At the weekend I was listening to Stereophonics ~ Performance and Cocktails.

LLVM is great for hacking about with languages.

In my previous post I left out something quite important: initialising the components of LLVM we wanted to use.

LLVM is a collection of libraries and programs for creating compilers.

Following on from from creating a tokeniser the next step is writing a parser.

When hacking on a problem it’s easy to get carried away with the how.

When reconstrucing a binary MSMQ message from a backup I was first tempted to just set the Body property on the message directly.

One of my favourite new languages right now is Rust.

I recently wrote about creating a tokeniser in C++ using Ragel.

Gists are really just git repos with no directory structure.

Ragel is an alternative to Lex/Flex for creating lectures from a set of regular expressions.

I have finally got around to adding commenting to this blog.

I’ve been living without internet recently.

It’s been a hectic few months.

There is a saying.

The air is warm.

It all started one fateful day, as these things have a habit of doing.

I began my text editing journey, as many do I am sure, with Notepad.exe.

“I’ll have to type in that thing again” my dad moaned.

Computer vision is an area which I had a distant interest in for quite some time.

Scripting languages are all the rage these days.