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6 Jan 2025
New blog post about why Go is well-designed and the difference between bad design, disagreeing with the goals of a project and "I don't like this".
#golang #languagedesign
mattjhall.co.uk/posts/go-is-…
ALT A screenshot of the blog post in question, covering the first few paragraphs
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9 Sep 2025
I always wanted to let people send me anonymous messages, but wanted something better than an email.
Now, I can get them printed right to my desk on a receipt 🧾
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8 Sep 2025
Find someone who looks at you the same way I look at CRDTs - I hope I'm able to convey to you why I find them so exciting.
(new blog post link in comments)
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✨ Big O ✨
Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o.
With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform, finding orders of magnitude improvements with very simple changes to your code
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19 Aug 2025
Going forward, AI assistance must be disclosed for Ghostty contributions: github.com/ghostty-org/ghost…
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14 Aug 2025
We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application from scratch and verified every feature with Valgrind along the way. Here's a reflection, plus notes about memory safety and Zig from a complex, real world codebase used by many, many thousands all day everyday. mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…
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5 Aug 2025
I wrote a blog post about some surprising (to me) #golang behaviour.
mattjhall.co.uk/posts/be-car…
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5 Jul 2025
Our pleasure (and privilege) at TigerBeetle to continue to support Andrew Kelley and the Zig Software Foundation as they develop the most powerful compilation toolchain and grammar in @ziglang.
5 Jul 2025
As announced on the Systems Distributed 25 website, TigerBeetle has generously donated 8k USD to ZSF.
Thank you Joran & team for both the donation and for hosting a conference of rare quality.
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19 Jun 2025
This was a very cool talk, although my A Level in physics didn’t quite prepare me for the equations in the standard model 🙈
19 Jun 2025
Amod Malviya introducing our next #systemsdistributed speaker Dr. Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad of ETH Zürich, talking about the astronomical 9 PiB/s scale of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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19 Jun 2025
Having a conference in a cinema certainly has some benefits - I can read all the text on the slides #sd25
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13 Jun 2025
where is homer simpson
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27 May 2025
New blog post - in this one I talk about how I use Jujutsu (jj) version control system with Gerrit
mattjhall.co.uk/posts/jujuts…
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27 May 2025
Hit a situation where only allowing cloud object storage would make my design so much simpler than including normal FS support.
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27 May 2025
Conditional writes for S3 and co are great…. When you can use them.
It’s kind of bananas how proper file systems don’t support such a thing (easily)
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26 May 2025
Overly-specific jokes 💬
-a thread
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15 May 2025
you can’t make this stuff up.
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9 May 2025
Jozy Altidore and Bebe on the last great wave of Premier League footballers
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9 May 2025
England in the sun is truly a magical place. It’s probably due to how miserable it is 90% of the time but god a beer in a pub garden cannot be beaten
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