Computer Broscience

Can you build a network that behaves like shared memory, with no token, no payment and no accounting of who stores what? I tried in Go two years ago. It worked, and then answering one much smaller question destroyed it. What actually failed, checked against the code — and the three answers the project has produced since.

Soaring Spirit is my first company, a Swiss GmbH running speedflying trips and coaching. The whole product runs as one Go binary on a Raspberry Pi in my house. Sixteen months in, this is what that choice has cost and what it has bought.

The first in a series about Camber, a simulation backend for aerofoil design. How a panel method actually works, explained with physics rather than mathematics — and why the hardest part turns out to be a single line of code.

As a way for me to dive deeper into Zig, I'm writing a HTTP server from scratch. This article describes some of the work I've done recently, and a few lessons that I've learned.

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

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

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

Distributed KV store.

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

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