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95 articles tagged with programming
2026
Optimizing memory use in a Markdown parser
Letting AI agents drive a GUI app with -dbg-control
Finding active GitHub forks from the command line
Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help
How to run msvc cl.exe from command-line (powershell)
2025
Benchmarking JSON vs TOON in Go
From JSON to TOON
Ideas for faster web dev cycle
Zed debug setup for go server / Svelte web app
lazy import of JavaScript modules
Using await in Svelte 5 components
vite /rollup manualChunks
File sync is very slow
Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person
Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser
Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application
Case study of over-engineered C++ code
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go
Size textarea to content
All about Svelte 5 snippets
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF
Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup
How I made SumatraPDF crash less
Compressing for the browser in Go
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go
Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF
Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5
2024
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
Modern C++
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
2023
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
Advanced markdown processing in Go
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
Programming articles
2022
Tech note: speed of iteration in programming
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code
2021
Using Go instead of bash for scripts
Using GitHub Actions with Go
Pure Bash Bible
siser
Hide header on scroll in Svelte
Logging HTTP requests in Go
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF
2019
The things we do to ship desktop software
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
Trade-offs in designing a versatile log format
2018
Portable Executable File Format
How I reverse engineered Notion API
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
Fuzzing a Markdown parser written in Go
2017
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (GCC, Clang, MSVC, etc.)
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size
2016
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
2015
Extracting files from .7z archives in Go
Better unique id generation than UUID
Accessing GitHub API from Go
2014
Improving speed of SMAZ compressor by 2.6x/1.5x
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
2013
Using Fabric for deploying server software
How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
2012
Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
Design and implementation of a translation system for desktop software
Speeding up Go with custom allocators
How I sped up Go by 20% (or is Go really slower than Java?)
Buying a certificate for signing Windows applications
2011
Showing HTML from memory in an embedded web control on Windows
Experience porting 4k lines of C code to Go
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software
XML is really, really slow
Writing a custom installer for Windows software
2010
Comparison of executable compressors: UPX 3.07w vs. MPRESS 2.17
Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake
8 habits for becoming a better programmer
Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog-commenting software
Tools that find bugs in C and C++ code via static code analysis
Summary of talk on continuous deployment
2009
Where do bugs come from?
2008
realloc() on Windows vs. Linux
gflags - a debugging story
Variadic Macros (C++)
2007
Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++
2006
How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60%
Order of #include headers in C/C++
Performance optimization story
Embedding binary resources on Windows
Compile-time asserts in C
2005
High-resolution timer for timing code fragments
Accurate timers on Windows
2002
Bugs and eyeballs
Engineering school (summary of Rick Catell talk)