Ben Hoyt's technical writing

Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22

The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 3.4s in nine solutions

Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io

Discussing Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK on "Stray Pointers"

"Stray Pointers" interview

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

How (not) to apply for a software job

The AWK book's 60-line version of Make

Using the WordStar diamond in 2023

Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

The proposal to enhance Go's HTTP router

Scripting with Go: a 400-line Git client that can create a repo and push itself to GitHub

Names should be as short as possible while still being clear

Lookup Tables (Forth Dimensions XIX.3)

For Python packages, file structure != API

Designing Pythonic library APIs

From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo

Code coverage for your AWK programs

I/O is no longer the bottleneck

microPledge: our startup that (we wish) competed with Kickstarter

Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go

Tools I use to build my website

Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support

Prig: like AWK, but uses Go for "scripting"

Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18

Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine

AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compiler

Improving the code from the official Go RESTful API tutorial

Simple Lists: a tiny to-do list app written the old-school way (server-side Go, no JS)

Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10

Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself

How to implement a hash table (in C)

Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust

The small web is beautiful

Coming in Go 1.16: ReadDir and DirEntry

Fuzzing in Go

Searching code with Sourcegraph

Different approaches to HTTP routing in Go

Go filesystems and file embedding

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

What's new in Lua 5.4

Hugo: a static-site generator

Generics for Go

More alternatives to Google Analytics

Lightweight Google Analytics alternatives

An intro to Go for non-Go developers

ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)

Testing in Go: philosophy and tools

The state of the AWK

What's coming in Go 1.15

Don't try to sanitize input. Escape output.

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