Links for the Week of September 19
- The Wasmtime wasm runtime hit version 1.0. I'm interested in the possibilities this offers for sandboxed and portable applications in a variety of languages.
- Ceej Silverio's short thread about how difficult it is to add engineers at the start of a project matched thoughts I've been having on the topic lately
- Ben Johnson released LiteFS, a system that distributes SQLite writes to a leader, by writing a Fuse filesystem to distribute SQLite writes. The ARCHITECTURE doc is short and worthwhile reading.
- Simon Willison started a very interesting twitter thread by asking people what tools they use to process CSV files of varying sizes. I updated my csv tools survey with some new tools from reading the responses.
- Charlie Loyd objectively correctly notes that Bryce had the finest UI of all time and that every modern UI is extremely boring
- I liked these detailed notes from Alexander Wang on drawing curved arrows between boxes. I love when people share the specialized knowledge they gain when building detailed things.
- A thorough and balanced article comparing the memory safety of zig and rust, by Jamie Brandon
- A c compiler in zig from Veikka Tuominen
- Tsoding is working on a single-file graphics library in C. The idea is that it can be compiled down to WASM for web display, SDL for native display, or whatever target you can think of. demos here
- Vincent Rischmann shows how you can use SQLite virtual tables to expose an API to sqlite as if it were a database. He uses zig for his example.
- Dan Nguyen tests OpenAI's new voice-to-text AI against one of TV's finest-ever scenes and it gives impressive results
Music
Lots of good music this week!
- New Nils Frahm, if you like ambient sounds. Great work music
- Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin album - I haven't listened much yet but the pairing is self-recommending
- A coworker turned me on to Thee Sacred Souls, a neo-soul outfit, and I liked their self-titled album