I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It is an autoimmune disorder where your body’s normally helpful antibodies start acting strangely. This leads to inflammation in the brain. This blog briefly discusses some of m…
Go’s only method of compile time safe polymorphism is structural subtyping, and this article will do nothing to change that. Instead, I’m going to present a package ty with facilities to write type parametric functions in Go that maintain r…
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep, that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for L…
It turns out that finite state machines are useful for things other than expressing computation. Finite state machines can also be used to compactly represent ordered sets or maps of strings that can be searched very quickly. In this articl…