Bolinfest Changeblog

Feb 16, 2024 marked the end of my 11.75 year career at Meta. As per tradition, I made an internal post to say good-bye accompanied by a phot...

Hello friends, it's been awhile. I recently had the opportunity to do a deep dive on eBPF and I learned a lot in the process. There isn...

I may be one of the last people you would expect to write an essay criticizing JavaScript, but here we are. Two of my primary areas of pro...

Although this list focuses on the negative aspects of Python, I am publishing it so I can use it as a reference in an upcoming essay about m...

Over one year ago, I wrote a blog post:  “Hacking on Atom Part I: CoffeeScript” . This post (Part II) is long overdue, but I kept putting it...

I don't have a ton of experience with weak maps, but I would expect the following to work: // File: example.js var key = {}; var indir...

Atom is written in CoffeeScript rather than raw JavaScript. As you can imagine, this is contentious with “pure” JavaScript developers . I h...