A Cursed Bug

made by nelhage, submitted by Mai
What makes a bug cursed? A blog post about tracking down a particularly satisfying one.

llama

made by nelhage, submitted by porterjamesj
A tool for offloading computation to AWS Lambda that can dramatically speed up C/C++ build times.

Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

made by nelhage, submitted by Mai
A blog post about Llama, a tool that lets you offload computational work – including C and C++ builds – onto Amazon Lambda. You can try it out here: https://github.com/nelhage/llama.

Computers can be understood

made by nelhage, submitted by Mai
A principled exploration of the author's philosophical approach to computing in general and debugging specifically.

Why sorbet is fast

made by nelhage, submitted by porterjamesj
A post explaining how Sorbet, a Ruby typechecker that Nelson worked on, achieves its high performance.

Reptyr

made by nelhage, submitted by davidbalbert
A tool that lets you move a process from one terminal to another.