Middle of Nowhere

I’ve been wondering what LLMs mean for language design and implementation.

In our old post about Kafka we described how to write a self-contained application to apply arbitrary transforms to an incoming stream of Kafka records and publish the result on a new topic.

💡 It is worth noticing Redpanda pioneered in-broker Wasm data transform and this blog series is largely inspired by that work!

I am resurrecting my old “Wasm the Hard Way” series with some fresh new content about a recent project I have been working on: porting the Chicory Wasm compiler to Android.

Update (Jun 20, 2025).

Update (Jun 20, 2025).

Update (Aug 3, 2023).

Lately there have been quite a few announcements around WebAssembly, such as the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview.

Traditionally Java libraries come with everything but the kitchen sink.

Welcome to the next installment of the “Writing Envoy WASM Filters The Hardest Way” franchise.

If you hadn’t noticed, I have started looking into WebAssembly and WASI.

I have been experimenting a little bit with LLVM and its WASM backend.

A few days ago I learned about pz.

This blog post was originally published at the Java Advent Calendar 2021, so pardon all the festive references.

Hello!

In 2012, Viktor Klang published a tiny Java snippet that implemented a tiny actor system in about about 20 lines of code; a few years later, a revised version showed how to do the same in Scala.

My favorite topic of discussion last year was moving computations to compile-time.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Shapeless is a Scala library for generic programming.

These are the slides for a talk I gave recently.

There was a time when I used to conclude the year with a writeup on my journal; there I drew the conclusions about the year that was coming to an end.