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May 20, 2025: Escape pods Well then, I suppose we need to talk about escaping. This is going to be extremely impressionistic because I’m not an historian. Apologies for all the …

May 13, 2025: Serialization Formats are not Toys There was a great video back in the day with that title. Most of the issues identified in it are long-since fixed, and it didn’t really cover the …

Apr 29, 2025: Starting Our Engine Okay, time to begin in earnest. The simplest entity that exists at each of the front, middle, and back-end is the literal – a literal representation …

Apr 22, 2025: Systems Programming How do we define systems programming? Wikipedia and friends will tell you that the term “Systems Programming” refers to software that reaches …

Apr 15, 2025: Quality Assurance We would like to be able to make definitive statements about our software. If we’re to do that, there has to be a mechanism that runs our tests on …

Apr 8, 2025: Inflating the Balloon Now that cargo init has given us raw materials, it’s time to fill in some initial proof-of-concept content. In effect we have been given an deflated …

Apr 1, 2025: First things first Before we do anything else, we start a repository. Nothing fancy, I’ll use some default github presets, along with my standard bits and pieces. A …

Mar 26, 2025: Let's Make a Database Call me Barzai (my IRL name is easily found, but we’re internet friends so let’s use internet names; if you are polite you will refrain from doxing). …