A few weeks ago, I was watching some informative system design talks at work. One of the topics discussed was circular dependencies in distributed systems. In particular, I learnt something I found fascinating: if your system has a hard circular dependency, you can never reboot it!

A few weeks ago, I upgraded my Linux OS to Ubuntu 18.04 (from 16.04). I did a clean install and overall it’s been nice - some function keys that didn’t work before now work great out of the box! However, one thing that’s annoyed me is the *beep* sounds that the shell makes (both Bash and zsh).

Here’s a puzzle. What do you think this Javascript code does?

f();
var f = 5;
function f() {
    console.log("Hello!");
}
f();

I recently wrote a post about Balloon, a new programming language I’ve been working on. In this post, I’ll try to put down some more of my thoughts on what I want to see Balloon become.

Since February this year, I’ve been working on a project that I’ve wanted to work on for quite some time now - a new programming language. After about 200 commits, things are now in working condition!

I’ve been working with server-side generated HTML for several years now, and the problem of code injection into HTML pages has been pervasive. A couple of days back, I discovered something fantastic that Go has built right into the standard library to help with this: context-aware autoescaping in HTML templates.

“Hello, world.” Words that every programmer first learns how to print (or printf).