A Missing IDE Feature

An article about a couple of relatively recent additions to my workflow which I wish I knew about years ago.

Why are there so many programming languages? One of the driving reasons for this is that some languages tend to produce fast code, but are a bit of a pain to use (C++), while others are a breeze to write, but run somewhat slow (Python). Depending on the ratio of CPUs to programmers, one or the other might be relatively more important.

In these two most excellent articles, https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures and https://without.boats/blog/futures-unordered, withoutboats introduces the concepts of multi-task and intra-task concurrency. I want to revisit this distinction --- while I agree that there are different classes of patterns of concurrency here, I am not...

An attempt at concise explanation of what io_uring is.

I had a productive day today! I did many different and unrelated things, but they all had the same unifying theme: