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Find me at: Army of Bees | Furano Avalanche Center | Github

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Current Passion Project:

Writing an interpreter in Zig

I'm following along with Thorsten Ball's excellent book: Writing an Interpreter in Go, but implementing everything in Zig. Zig is a very cool language and an excellent introduction to manual memory management through its unique use of typed allocators. Ball never claimed his Monkey-language compiler was optimized for performance (quite the opposite), so Zig's memory management patterns have presented obvious opportunities to re-think things: "Is there a way to do this bit without heap allocations? Fun.

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Tech I truly care about:

• Linux
• Svelte

There are others that almost make this list. But these two were love at first sight and have never waned.

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Languages I am keen on:

• Go
• Zig
• Rescript
• Gleam

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Languages I am using in production:

@ front-end
• Typescript
• Javascript
• CSS
• Sass
• PostCSS
@ back-end
• Typescript
• SQL/plpgsql
• Go
• Python
• Ruby
• PHP

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Tech / Frameworks / Platforms etc I am using in production:

@ front-end
• Svelte
• React
• MobX + vanilla JS
@ back-end
• SvelteKit
• Deno
• Bun
@ cloud db / serverless
• Supabase
• Firebase
• AWS ...too many to list
• Hasura
@ ssg / headless
• Hugo
• Netlify CMS
• Gatsby ... but never again
@ monolith
• Ruby on Rails
• Wordpress
@ toolchain
• Vite
• Webpack
• Rollup
• Parcel