The beginning of project Peregrine - a bleeding fast HTTP server

As a way for me to dive deeper into Zig, I'm writing a HTTP server from scratch.

Job Search

I left a lucrative Software Engineering role in Switzerland, and went travelling. I'm now open to opportunities...

First thoughts on Zig

I describe what I like about the Zig systems programming language, and what I don't like after a couple of weeks of tinkering.

The relationship between turn radius and velocity

Turn radius is proportional to the velocity squared.

Leaving some projects unfinished is cruicial for maximising rate of learning

Comparing the performance of a de Bruijn sequence against a simple lookup table

Precomputed de Bruijn sequences are cool, but are they faster than simple lookup tables?

Dave

Distributed KV store.

logd

Real-time logging (tail & query) over UDP, with ring buffers.

arpload

I wanted to upload a 4k video to Arweave network... and failed at first. Safely upload large files to Arweave network with arpload.

First time in Madeira

Considering the Maritime alps, I looked further afield, to warmer climes. I almost went to Corsica...