Index

	Essays	Projects	Links	More Links
Standards	Compact Base64-first UIDs Defending `$HOME` XDG Migration Status	📂 The Dirs Project 📂 Talk directories-jvm directories-rs & dirs-rs	Unicode & Character Sets Path handling on Windows	Falsehoods about paths Calendrical calculations
Languages	Design Principles: Modern & Minimal Familiarity Easy wins: Useful Syntax Sugar Use `[]`, not `<>` for Generics Use `ident: Type`, not `Type ident` Use consistent casing Use consistent keyword length Simplicity matters: Unnecessary: Unary Operators Overused: Binary Operators Obsolete: Modifiers Failed Attempts Drop `break` and `continue` Fields & Methods & Properties? Pick Two! Mistakes were made: Popular, but Wrong Implicit Numeric Conversions Package Objects in Scala Rust's Design Mistakes Struct initialization in Rust Rust's Almost-Rules	✨ The Core Language ✨ About Design Overview Changes Equality & Identity: Overview Problems Solution Fixing Haskell Java Fixing Rust Fixing Swift Comparing & Sorting Unified Condition Expressions: Introduction Implementation Exceptions Comparison with Rust Type Ascriptions & Generics Naming Conventions: Creation Conversion Option & Result Lookup Streaming Unions	Minimalism in Programming Language Design 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages 7 programming ur-languages Wirth Evolution: Pascal Modula-2 Oberon Memories: Edinburgh ML to Standard ML My thoughts on OCaml Swift Regrets Compiling Swift Generics^pdf Impoliteness of Overriding Cyclone's Fascinating Influence Ownership you can count on Semicolon Inference Shift Larger Than Register Size Hundred year mistakes Memory Safety Approaches	Syntax Comparisons/Overviews: Rigaux PLDB Hyperpolyglot Chlipala Type classes: confluence, coherence & global uniqueness Semantics of Dependency Resolvers In Praise of Mandatory Indentation Parsing Ambiguity: Type Argument vs. Less Than Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures Living in a Post-Functional World Almost Rules in Rust Pretend That Task = Thread? Async Rust Is A Bad Language Avoid Async Rust At All Cost A treatise on error models for systems programming languages
Runtimes	Domains as Cargo Namespaces	Efficient Memory Use: Pointer Compression Header Compression	Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes Virtual Machines Summer School 2016 How JIT Compilers are Implemented and Fast JVM Anatomy Quarks	Pointer Compression in V8 Cranelift Backend: Instruction Selection Compiler Efficiency Correct Register Allocation A New Register Allocator
Interfaces	x86 prefix & escape flowchart Intel's original 64bit extensions for x86 Improving the XFCE Settings UI	Improving the Synaptic Package Manager UI Vertical Tabs in Firefox	Hybrid Dynamic/Static Linking Dynamic Linking in Swift αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε C Isn't A Language Anymore To Save C, We Must Save ABI The Day The Standard Library Died	Your ABI is Probably Wrong Kinds Are Calling Conventions^pdf Ghosts of Unix Past: Design patterns Conflated designs Unfixable designs High-maintenance designs On ELF: Part 1 Part 2
Hardware	Keyboard Design USB-HID Protocol Evolution	Keyboard Build Keyboard Setup	Writing an OS in Rust RISC-V: The Middling/Bad/Ugly	Linear Address Masking