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Matklad's Arts&Crafts

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Memory Safety Is ...

Published: December 30, 2025 00:00

Memory safety is one of those elusive concepts like intelligence, consciousness, or porn, that resist attempts to be put to words. Thus, I am not going to attempt to define it. Instead, I want to poke holes in definitions of others.

The Second Great Error Model Convergence

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

I feel like this has been said before, more than once, but I want to take a moment to note that most modern languages converged to the error management approach described in Joe Duffy's The Error Model, which is a generational shift from the previous…

Parsing Advances

Published: December 28, 2025 00:00

I find myself writing yet another toy parser, as one does during a Christmas break. It roughly follows Resilient LL Parsing Tutorial. Not because I need resilience, but mostly because I find producing a syntax tree and a collection of diagnostics a more…

Static Allocation For Compilers

Published: December 23, 2025 00:00

TigerBeetle famously uses static allocation. Infamously, the use of the term is idiosyncratic: what is meant is not static arrays, as found in embedded development, but rather a weaker no allocation after startup form. The amount of memory TigerBeetle…

Mechanical Habits

Published: December 6, 2025 00:00

My schtick as a software engineer is establishing automated processes --- mechanically enforced patterns of behavior. I have collected a Santa Claus bag of specific tricks I've learned from different people, and want to share them in turn.

TigerBeetle Blog

Published: November 22, 2025 00:00

Continuing the tradition, I've been also blogging somewhat regularly on TigerBeetle's blog, so you might want to check those articles out or even subscribe (my favorite RSS reader is RSSSSR):