Archive: 2024-10

Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance — “This is yet another reminder to me that I need to get over my cgi-bin era bias that says that shelling out to another process during a web request is a bad idea. It turns out modern computers can quite happily spawn and terminate 2,500+ processes a second!” —- I have these same instincts and was shaking my head in disapproval until I read this paragraph. 30 years into doing this work and the rate of change remains the hardest thing to wrap my head around. (2024-10-29 · change, computers, mlp, moores.law, performance, programming, progress, rust )

A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design — "The current standards of evaluation in the PL community are set from a masculine perspective as well, valuing formalism and formal methods over user studies, quantitative over qualitative work, and the examining of technical aspects over context and people." (2024-10-24 · feminism, mlp, pdf, programming, science )

Solar-powered, self-hosted website — Intermittently available — not everything needs to be 5 nines (2024-10-20 · hosting, mlp, raspberry.pi, solar )

Turns out the "October Surprise" is crime — “Elon’s secret is and always has been playing the game on easy mode while his opponents struggle with complex ruleset.” (2024-10-20 · easy.mode, elections, elon.musk, mlp, silicon.valley )