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Today i’d like to coin a new term: The Negative Overhead Abstraction™. In this post we’ll briefly explore C++’s use of them, their relation to zero overhead abstractions, why they suck, and how we could do better.

Wait, what…? Sometimes, when discussions about type system designs arise, someone makes a slight remark that machine code, aka. that binary programming language your CPU speaks, is an example of an »untyped« language. I heard that claim again recently, listening to a podcast, and so i felt inspired to write about why i disagree with that claim.

In my work time i do a lot of C#. Inevitably i also run into a lot of nullable data. This is a short story of how i tried to make dealing with nullable data cleaner, coming from languages with monadic Option types. Did it go well? No.

A list of western animated TV shows, aka. cartoons, that i have watched, nicely tagged with quick visual content indicators so you can quickly find something that may interest you.

I found myself talking a few times about an old project of mine over at the good ol’ RPLCS. Today i finally thought: Why not blog about it? Introducing: Finvil, a virtual CPU ISA, meant to be embedded into applications as a bytecode interpreter for scripting. Fasten your seat belts, for we are gonna talk about different approaches and considerations in ISA and bytecode design.

City life sure has its merits, especially when it comes to street food. The local cuisine can teach you a lot about local culture. Even if it’s »just« another pizza restaurant, no two pizzas really taste the same.

This is the beginning of a hopefully short-running blog post series called »Tartiliser«, from »tar« and »fertiliser«. It’s a photo blog about beautiful nature… tainted by our garbage.

Does the UTF‑8 encoding scheme make sense? Is it the best design we can come up with? In this article i’m walking through the process of designing a UTF‑8 alternative, that… well… just magically ends up being UTF‑8. How lovely when things just make sense!