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2026-05-26 09:55 #

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2026-05-26 09:51 #

the key point is that matrix transpose serves as a prime example of the > problem which appears trivial but nevertheless requires tremendous effort to > be solved efficiently for CPU. Root causes of this unpleasant surprise can be > traced to high memory latency and limited parallelization capabilities of > CPUs. Neither of these issues is going to be alleviated in the future. — What it takes to transpose a matrix

2026-05-26 09:51 #
2026-05-26 09:50 #

Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are > being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively > little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. — The Modern CLI Renaissance

2026-05-20 21:11 #

/me is listening to “They Say in Love” by The Tempers

2026-05-19 08:51 #

The old tram tracks of Paris (10 meters from the new tracks).

2026-05-18 20:44 #

I’m not against writing code with debuggability in mind, but implicit returns are an idiom in Rust. It feels so unnecessary to reduce the idiomatical > adherence of the code due to a DAP gap, especially when the debugger on the > other side of DAP supports logging return values. Just don’t make me do this. > — Debugging Rust with Vim’s Termdebug

2026-05-18 10:53 #

vim and the quickfix list: jump to a location, search and replace in multiple files, and other shenanigans: One of the best blog post about the underrated Quickfix list that I use all the time. #vim

2026-05-18 10:30 #

Roswell is advertised as a solution, but it’s possibly the most un-Lispy tool in the ecosystem. It doesn’t download dependencies, or help you build them. — Deploying Common Lisp Scripts

2026-05-18 10:29 #

Engineering Design Optimization, by Joaquim R. R. A. Martins and Andrew Ning.