Published inThe Toit TakeGet insight into memory use on your ESP32 running ToitOne advantage of running a virtual machine on an ESP32 is that the VM can provide ways to inspect the state of the system. For example, the…Apr 26, 20241Apr 26, 20241
Sorting Algorithms that don’t Hate You(This is a sort of sequel to Hash Maps that don’t Hate You.)Jan 11, 20231Jan 11, 20231
Running Advent of Code on a $2 microcontrollerThis year for the first time, I completed Advent of Code. It’s 25 fun little programming exercises, or at least that’s how it starts out.Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022
Trying out the Quite OK Image format in ToitSupporting images in embedded devices can be difficult. Devices like the M5Stack have nice hi-res displays, but a frame buffer for a…Dec 9, 2021Dec 9, 2021
Regexp backtracking in loops, and how we can optimize it away.I was one of the people originally behind Irregexp, V8’s regexp implementation. We basically built it to win on regexp-dna and it’s very…Jul 2, 20193Jul 2, 20193
Published inHackerNoon.comThe madness of parsing real world JavaScript regexpsThe story of JavaScript is the story of accidental implementation details that become unfixable WTF moments for all new developers. All…Jan 17, 20171Jan 17, 20171
Published inDartDart-on-LLVMThis is a story about an experiment to compile the Dart language using the LLVM compiler framework. On its face this is pretty pointless…Jan 11, 20175Jan 11, 20175
