Alice 2023 There's an upcomming election in the W3C... If you're not familliar with W3C elections already, I wrote a brief (~400 word) "Primer for Busy People" on the general...

Good evening :) A quick note, tonight: I've long thought that ephemerons are primitive and can't be implemented with mark functions and/or finalizers, but today I think I have a...

In last blog post, I introduced call stack profiling, why it is useful, and how a system wide support can be useful. This new blog post will talk about Windows...

Like many of you, I’ve been checking out Mastodon and finding more and more things I like.  Including the use of XFN (XHTML Friends Network) semantics to verify ownership of...

Mike Cowlishaw’s FAQ on dec­i­mal arith­meticIf you’re in­ter­est­ed in dec­i­mal arith­metic in com­put­ers, you’ve got to check out Mike Cowlishaw’s FAQ on the sub­ject. There’s a ton of in­sight to...

Okay, I can’t believe I have to do this again. This time, let’s leave the Hellsite out of it, and let’s try to be nuanced from the start. I’d like...

It has been a busy couple of months. As I pointed on my last blog post, I finished GSoC and joined the Igalia Coding Experience mentorship project. In October, I also traveled...

Good day, hackfolk. Today's article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are, but perhaps not so many have seen an annotated implementation, so let's do that.Just...

Sometimes when you see an elegant algorithm, you think "looks great, I just need it to also do X". Perhaps you are able to build X directly out of what...

Good day, hackfolk. Today's note tries to extend our semi-space collector with support for ephemerons. Spoiler alert: we fail in a subtle and interesting way. See if you can spot...

The end of 2022 is very close so I’m just in time for some self-promotion. As you may know, the ongoing collaboration between Valve and Igalia lets me and some...

Some time ago, I published user styles to visually highlight images on Twitter that didn’t have alt text  —  this was in the time before the “ALT” badge and the much...