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This isn't an anti-Go post. Go is a great language. This is about what I want to understand. I just finished building an L7 HTTP load balancer in Go. It accepts connections. It parses HTTP headers. It forwards requests to backend servers using round-robin. It handles concurrent connections with goroutines. It has health checks. It works. And somewhere in the middle of it working, I realized I didn
Most developers use malloc without thinking much about what happens underneath. This project is an attempt to explore that layer by building a memory allocator from scratch in C. The allocator implements malloc, free, calloc, and realloc without relying on libc’s heap functions. It focuses on: Thread safety Per-thread caching (tcache) Efficient free block management using bins mmap-based memory g
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Ages ago when CSS grids came with a repeat() function to simplify defining repetitive columns and rows, I was not alone in wishing for this function to be made generic and work in any context. After seeing Wes Bos on BlueSky wishing for this exact concept, specifically for repeating segments in a shape() definition, I chimed in with my +1's on making repeat() generic across CSS Without delay, @no