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Choosing a Rust Logging Library — tracing, fastrace, fast_log and the Rest
Which layer is your logging actually slow in? How to pick a Rust logger from your use case and runtime, and how to measure it.
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MoonBit and the State of WASM Languages (2026) — Choosing a Language in the Wasm GC Era
Comparing WASM-first languages (MoonBit, AssemblyScript, Grain) with languages that added a WASM backend (Rust, C/C++, TinyGo, Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, C#, SwiftWasm). Using linear memory vs. Wasm GC, Component Model support, binary size, and maturity as axes, this article explains how to choose a WASM language in 2026.
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A Map of WASM Runtimes and Frameworks (2026) — Who Actually Implements the Raw APIs?
From WASM runtimes like Wasmtime, Wasmer, WasmEdge, wazero, and WAMR, through WASI/Component Model tooling (WIT, wit-bindgen, cargo-component, jco), upper frameworks (Extism, Spin, wasmCloud, Proxy-Wasm), to GPU implementations (Dawn, wgpu) — a layer-by-layer map of who implements WASM's raw APIs, and how to choose, as of 2026.
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What Alopex Chirps Is — A Library for Forming Clusters, and the Consensus It Adopted
Building a distributed system means building node discovery, liveness detection, messaging, and agreement before getting to the actual work. Alopex Chirps takes on exactly those four. This covers what it handles and what it does not, why QUIC was chosen, and how openraft came to be the consensus layer.
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Consensus Algorithms, Underground (Part 3) — Lying Nodes, from PBFT to DAG-BFT
The world in which nodes send signed, contradictory information. The meaning of the constant n=3f+1, PBFT's three-phase voting, Tendermint's locking rules, HotStuff's quorum certificates, and what the DAG-BFT designs since Narwhal separated and what they removed. Part 3 of a 4-part series.
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Getting Started with Nim: Tauri-like Nimino and Zed-like Nimculus
A quick introduction to Nim, and an announcement of two desktop products I started in Nim — Nimino, a Tauri-like lightweight WebView app framework, and Nimculus, a Zed-like GPU-native code editor.
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Rust Is Not a Silver Bullet — Language Parsers Belong in Nim or Roc
The myth that 'Rust can do anything' collapses the moment you try to scale a recursive AST. For SQL parsers — massive tagged unions, deep recursion — Rust's type system breaks down in both compile time and maintainability. A 3-language benchmark porting the same parser to Nim and Roc shows exactly why Rust is structurally the wrong tool, with runnable code.
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Getting Started with Roc: A Pure Functional Language Meant to Ride Alongside Rust
A technical look at Roc — Richard Feldman's pure functional language. Covering the alpha4-rolling status, Perceus reference counting, the Platform/Host model, and the Zig compiler rewrite, informed by AlopexDB's SQL parser trial.
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Getting Started with Nim: A Multi-Paradigm Language That Transpiles to C
A technical overview of Nim in 2026 — the stable 2.2 series, the upcoming 3.0 (Nimony) compiler rewrite, ORC memory management, C ABI interop, and its real-world performance as an SQL parser candidate for AlopexDB.
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Choosing a Rust Logging Library — tracing, fastrace, fast_log and the Rest
Which layer is your logging actually slow in? How to pick a Rust logger from your use case and runtime, and how to measure it.
MoonBit and the State of WASM Languages (2026) — Choosing a Language in the Wasm GC Era
Comparing WASM-first languages (MoonBit, AssemblyScript, Grain) with languages that added a WASM backend (Rust, C/C++, TinyGo, Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, C#, SwiftWasm). Using linear memory vs. Wasm GC, Component Model support, binary size, and maturity as axes, this article explains how to choose a WASM language in 2026.
A Map of WASM Runtimes and Frameworks (2026) — Who Actually Implements the Raw APIs?
From WASM runtimes like Wasmtime, Wasmer, WasmEdge, wazero, and WAMR, through WASI/Component Model tooling (WIT, wit-bindgen, cargo-component, jco), upper frameworks (Extism, Spin, wasmCloud, Proxy-Wasm), to GPU implementations (Dawn, wgpu) — a layer-by-layer map of who implements WASM's raw APIs, and how to choose, as of 2026.
What Alopex Chirps Is — A Library for Forming Clusters, and the Consensus It Adopted
Building a distributed system means building node discovery, liveness detection, messaging, and agreement before getting to the actual work. Alopex Chirps takes on exactly those four. This covers what it handles and what it does not, why QUIC was chosen, and how openraft came to be the consensus layer.
Consensus Algorithms, Underground (Part 3) — Lying Nodes, from PBFT to DAG-BFT
The world in which nodes send signed, contradictory information. The meaning of the constant n=3f+1, PBFT's three-phase voting, Tendermint's locking rules, HotStuff's quorum certificates, and what the DAG-BFT designs since Narwhal separated and what they removed. Part 3 of a 4-part series.
Getting Started with Nim: Tauri-like Nimino and Zed-like Nimculus
A quick introduction to Nim, and an announcement of two desktop products I started in Nim — Nimino, a Tauri-like lightweight WebView app framework, and Nimculus, a Zed-like GPU-native code editor.
Rust Is Not a Silver Bullet — Language Parsers Belong in Nim or Roc
The myth that 'Rust can do anything' collapses the moment you try to scale a recursive AST. For SQL parsers — massive tagged unions, deep recursion — Rust's type system breaks down in both compile time and maintainability. A 3-language benchmark porting the same parser to Nim and Roc shows exactly why Rust is structurally the wrong tool, with runnable code.
Getting Started with Roc: A Pure Functional Language Meant to Ride Alongside Rust
A technical look at Roc — Richard Feldman's pure functional language. Covering the alpha4-rolling status, Perceus reference counting, the Platform/Host model, and the Zig compiler rewrite, informed by AlopexDB's SQL parser trial.
Getting Started with Nim: A Multi-Paradigm Language That Transpiles to C
A technical overview of Nim in 2026 — the stable 2.2 series, the upcoming 3.0 (Nimony) compiler rewrite, ORC memory management, C ABI interop, and its real-world performance as an SQL parser candidate for AlopexDB.