Yorick Peterse

Funding open-source software is a challenge, especially for projects without a large existing community.

I've been running this website since 2008.

My current laptop is an aging X1 Carbon generation 7, purchased some time in mid 2019.

This week I've been working on a script and slides for a YouTube video about Inko.

Recently I've been playing around with FreeBSD in a virtual machine.

The last few weeks I've been working on adding an HTTP 1.1 stack to the standard library of Inko as part of this pull request.

After publishing the recent 0.18.1 release of Inko, I spent a few weeks building a simple key-value database in Inko.

When defining a type in Inko, it's allocated on the heap by default.

A feature scheduled to be released in Inko 0.18.0 is the ability to define types to allocate on the stack instead of on the heap: # Instances of this type are heap allocated. type User { let @name: String } # This goes on the stack instead due to the u…

Recently I read about a new Rust web framework called rwf.

Asynchronous IO (also known as "non-blocking IO") is a technique applications use to allow performing of many IO operations without blocking the calling OS thread, and without needing to spawn many threads (i.e. one thread per operation).

Ask ten developers how they think a certain piece of code should be formatted, and you'll likely get ten different opinions.

I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.

In 2013, I had an idea: "what if I were to build my programming language?".

For the last 10 years or so, Arch Linux has been my Linux distribution of choice.

Back in October 2015 I joined GitLab.

It's been a while since the last update about my work on the Inko programming language.

libffi-rs (GitHub repository) is a Rust crate that provides bindings to libffi.

June 2020 marks my 10-year anniversary of becoming a software developer.

How to perform garbage collection is a widely explored topic, and there are all sorts of different techniques.

The article "Beating C with 80 Lines of Haskell" discusses writing a simplified version of wc using Haskell, and how it performs compared to the C implementation.

About a year ago I wrote "Inko: a brief introduction", and later published the Inko website.

Inko is a programming language I started working on in early 2015.

The process of evaluating a programming or query language is typically broken up in 3 steps: The lexing phase, which turns raw text into a sequence of "tokens".

I'm excited to announce that I will be joining GitLab starting October 1st.

Until now if one wanted to parse XML and/or HTML in Ruby the most common choice would be Nokogiri.

In the Ruby ecosystem there are plenty of HTTP libraries.

As it turns out you can make the process discussed in this article easier by using a Rakefile instead of an extconf.rb file.

Pry is a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) that was written as a better alternative to IRB.

Almost any application will eventually need to store a collection of passwords or another type of data that has to be stored using a hashing algorithm.