At work, we recently had to move a few tables from one PostgreSQL instance to another. In my previous post, I discussed how to use Google’s Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate data from one instance to another. Unfortunately, that option was not availa…
This is the first in a series of blog posts centered around my current personal project. email: tucker.bull.morgan@gmail.com The project is called , a Ru...
Software engineers underestimate the scale of Excel usage. With agents now able to work directly in spreadsheets, we're looking at transforming how billions of dollars in business processes are managed.
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I really like reading. It's an activity that I have rediscovered multiple times throughout my life. When I was a kid, I loved the Harry Potter books. Now tha...
It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark.
The S&P 500 stands at the most extreme level of valuations in history. This record aligns precisely with the happiest and most satisfying moment of a speculative bubble: the point where wildly misaligned expectations for market returns are being realized anywa…
In the first part of this series, we covered the basic workflow of Machine Scheduler – LLVM’s predominated instruction scheduling framework – and learned that an instruction could go through three phases of checks before it finally got scheduled: legality chec…
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Dave installs, configures, and boots a vintage DEC RA82 massive drive in a PDP-11/73 rack system - featuring the full sights and sounds! Lift Cart: https://amzn.to/4oQrwPs Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merc…
I'm impressed with the level of compatibility of the new memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C (filcc, fil++). Many libraries and applications that I've tried work under Fil-C without changes, and the exceptions haven't been hard to get working.
A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.
puzzle roguelike on a hyperbolic plane
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Ray to Plane intersection testing, theory and implementation
A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
Sailfish OS’s heritage lies in Nokia times, especially in the MeeGo operating system. Prior to 2011 Nokia and Intel had a vision of an open mobile operating system. Together they invested around 1 billion USD to the project and created an open source based ope…
Visopsys is an alternative operating system for PC compatible computers. In development since 1997, this system is small, fast, and open source. It features a simple but functional graphical interface, pre-emptive multitasking, and virtual memory. Though it at…
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.
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ghc itself can now run purely client-side in the browser, here’s a haskell playground demo. terms and conditions apply, and i’ll write up more detailed explanation some time later, but i thought this is a cool thing to show off how far the ghc wasm backend has…
SQLite is a powerful database engine, but due to its design, it has limitations that should not be overlooked.
How to attack a macOS XPC Helper using a simple Objective-C script
Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025
Quickstrom is a property-based testing tool for web applications, using QuickLTL for specifying the intended behavior. QuickLTL is a linear temporal logic (LTL) over finite traces, especially suited for testing. As with many other logic systems, when a formula…
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Upgraded to WiFi 7 expecting 1.7 Gbps speeds. Got 400 Mbps instead. Here's what was actually wrong and how I fixed it.
When Copilot gets stuck trying to directly fix a problem, asking it to write a diagnostic script can help get unstuck.
Dissent, sharedness, and the design of collective intelligence
The false gospel of simplicity. Domain Driven Design (DDD) vs Slop.
A big part of my job is helping other engineers grow their careers. I’ve collected resources that have personally helped me, and helped me help others.
Imagine a single, all-powerful prover, then split it in two, and forbid them to speak. In that silence, BGKW discovered that separation itself can be a source of security.
I was eight years old when I first tried to hack the intro screens of Commodore-64 games. I found a BASIC programming book and opened it with all the enthusiasm of a kid who thought he was about to unlock the secrets of the universe. Page after page of mysteri…
Text rendering is cursed. Anyone who has worked on text will tell you the same; whether it's about layout, bi-directional, shaping, Unicode, or the rendering itself, it's never a completely solved problem. In my personal case, I've been working on trying to re…
Survive AI. Don't get replaced by a GPU.
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished.
Budget planning may not seem like a place where your technical skills would be useful, but there’s always something you could help with.
Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 41 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually have bad performance and excessive IO. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122#section-4.4 ↩
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