21 December 2024

21 links · Saturday

dropping hyper

The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper. The idea was to introduce an alternativ…

Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized

The popularity of the Rust language continues to explode; yet, many critical codebases remain authored in C, and cannot be realistically rewritten by hand. Automatically translating C to Rust is thus an appealing course of action. Several works have gone down …

Artemis

Artemis is a calm web reader.

Enum of Arrays

The financial transactions database to power the next 30 years of Online Transaction Processing.

Discord Gems in Emergent Tech

Examples of emergent tech servers managed by larger companies and smaller communities worth checking out

Breaking the Status Quo

A vision for a new WordPress era WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alone for a bit until after the holiday break, until, last night, Matt …

BBEdit for Log Analysis

BBEdit is not my choice of code editor or writing app, but for logfile analysis, it's the best.