Programming

Interview With Matheus Moreira - Jul 2026

A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.

Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto - Jul 2026

Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.

Interview With Claude Roux - Jun 2026

Through LispE, Claude Roux researches neuro-symbolic AI incorporating elements of Haskell and APL

Interview With John Earnest - Mar 2026

John Earnest (Internet_Janitor) empowers creativity with Decker, WigglyPaint, Lil, oK!

Interview With Nathan Goldbaum - Mar 2026

Nathan Goldbaum helped make Python multithreaded! He shared his fine thoughts and insights on many topics like Mercurial and Jujutsuwith me.

Interview With Steve Klabnik - Feb 2026

Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone and worked at Oxide

Interview With Steve Klabnik - Feb 2026

Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone, worked at Oxide etc.

Unity of Paradigms - Dec 2025

Map/filter/reduce, APL and Relational Algebra seem to be the same

Interview With Akseli Lahtinen - Dec 2025

KDE Plasma developer and game builder

Interview With Bakpakin - Dec 2025

Bakpakin made Janet. I asked him about the project and community.

Interview With ZDSmith - Nov 2025

ZDSmith lives notation as a tool of thought, making shorthands, a requirement gathering language, porting J to Janet and…

Interview With Susam Pal - Oct 2025

Susam builds tiny, lightweight, minimalist tools for programmers and scholars.

Interview With Matklad - Aug 2025

Matklad built a lot of Rust tooling and now works at Tigerbeetle.

Interview With Hillel Wayne - Aug 2025

Hillel Wayne breathes formal methods.

Interview With Icefox - Aug 2025

Icefox is building Garnet, a small Rust

Interview With Technomancy - Jul 2025

Technomancy made Leinigen, leads the Fennel project and makes beautiful games!

Is AI the End of Programming Languages? - May 2025

Karpathy and fans call English the hottest new programming language. I guess COBOL’s retro now.

Notes

Minimal Compilers - Jun 2026

Projects like QBE and Mir approach GCC performance with 1/10 as much code

Macros - Jul 2025

Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Janet all handle macros different. Who’s right?

Asearch For - Jun 2025

???
Since curiosity first cried
I’ve sought without end hope, grief-sick
I spied th’infinite, soared mong the platonic spheres and reached heaven
Alas, a prisoner of my fate, my mortal being

PostScript - Jun 2025

PostScript is fascinating concatenative language of great power, used in PDFs of all things!

Criticisms of Racket - Jun 2025

I like Racket but others don’t. I’ll collect their objections.