Arena allocator tips and tricks(nullprogram.com)

253 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 76 comments

Mistakes and cool things to do with arena allocators(zylinski.se)

63 points by skeptrune 1 year ago | 7 comments

A simple, arena-backed, generic dynamic array for C(nullprogram.com)

69 points by david2ndaccount 3 years ago | 18 comments

Speculations on arenas and custom strings in C++(nullprogram.com)

38 points by KeyurRamoliya 1 year ago | 6 comments

So you want custom allocator support in your C library(nullprogram.com)

157 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 91 comments

WebAssembly: How to Allocate Your Allocator(nullprogram.com)

34 points by ingve 1 year ago | 3 comments

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)

446 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 199 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Challenge Is Gone(blog.alxgsv.com)

46 points by alxgsv 1 day ago | 84 comments

Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.