xnacly - blog

The summary of hours of pain until I finally understood the android cli and Androids idiocracy

removing overengineered memory translation, hardening and new table driven armv7 instr decoding

6.32x faster via zero allocations, less UTF8, more ASCII and assumptions

Full pipeline deep dive for purple garden: AST, BB SSA IR, Bytecode, Optimisations

Naive vi like motion subset emulation bolted on top of bubbletea in 120loc

First optimizations I made while redesigning and semi-porting the purple-garden runtime from C to Rust

A deep dive into purple-garden’s runtime and semispace copying garbage collector with explicit root enumeration and bump allocation

Emulating armv7 is surprisingly easy, even from scratch AND in Rust

Macros, Token pasting and Custom allocators vs Traits, Option<Box<[MaybeUninit<T>]>> and the borrow checker

So I need to use ISO8601 durations which Go doesn’t support

Making compilation pipelines fast, starting with the tokenizer

Go iterators are too minimalist and iter.Seq/iter.Seq2 suck

Designing a calling convention by merging registers and a stack into the purple-garden vm

Shortcomings of getopt, parsing CLI arguments into flags, no POSIX and a lot of implementation details

nvim@v0.11 finally stabilizes lsp configuration “shortcuts” from nightly

The default config of the clang lsp is old, so you have to specific –std

Json parsing in C using function pointers attached to a struct

Adding syntax highlighting to SQL snippets in sqleibniz diagnostics

Using Treesitter in neovim to conditionally highlight code snippets

Benchmarking, analysing and improving JSON parsing performance

Improving the SQL DX one blog article at a time

Implementing levenshtein distance naïvely (and very slow) in Rust

Investigating performance issues in a go package for open port lookup

Macros, iterators, patterns, error handling and match make Rust almost perfect

Go 1.23 added Iterators, so lets build a js like streaming api

Giving lots of edge cases attention, so I can call my json parser RFC 8259 compliant

Minimal hash table implementation

Interacting with the Go runtime with c++ (or c, i think)

Doing less enables doing more INSERTs

Sharing state up and down the DOM, My favorite Vue.js feature and its React.js counter part

Proof of concept for compiling arithmetic expressions on the fly

In depth guide on tokenizing input + interpreter setup

Implementing a go like slice type for and in c

Disabling popup prompt and translation in firefox@^118

Implementing a Rust like Result type for and in c

Stripping metadata and debug information

Solving and optimizing a leetcode puzzle in three ways

How to tokenize markdown without regular expressions

Understanding, implementing and cracking RSA

Snippet to remap accepting copilot suggestions

Small guide with snippets for encoding and decoding data into csv, json and xml

Small but sufficient guide for github and git beginners

Guide for signing jar files and verifying a jar files signature programmatically

Guide about working with JSON in go with HTTP server example

How to fix the ‘object … is corrupt’ issue which renders git unusable

A guide to updating a repository periodically using x-git-sync

Quick guide with snippet on how to check if a executable is in the systems path

Short guide to adding autocommands to neovim using lua with the vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd interface

Top 10 neovim plugins everyone needs

Guide to using fzf in neovim with preview and keybinds