https://xnacly.me/Recent content on xnacly - blogHugoencontact@xnacly.me (xnacly)contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/revisiting-and-optimising-goiso8601duration/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/revisiting-and-optimising-goiso8601duration/6.32x faster via zero allocations, less UTF8, more ASCII and assumptionshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2026/compiling-match-statements-to-bytecode/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:13:56 +0100contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/compiling-match-statements-to-bytecode/Full pipeline deep dive for purple garden: AST, BB SSA IR, Bytecode, Optimisationshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2026/the-worst-vim-emulation-for-my-mail-client/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:02:23 +0100contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/the-worst-vim-emulation-for-my-mail-client/Naive vi like motion subset emulation bolted on top of bubbletea in 120lochttps://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/First optimizations I made while redesigning and semi-porting the purple-garden runtime from C to Rusthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2026/manchester-garbage-collector/Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:51:42 +0100contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/manchester-garbage-collector/A deep dive into purple-garden&rsquo;s runtime and semispace copying garbage collector with explicit root enumeration and bump allocationhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/Emulating armv7 is surprisingly easy, even from scratch AND in Rusthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/porting-a-segmented-list-from-c-to-rust/Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/porting-a-segmented-list-from-c-to-rust/Macros, Token pasting and Custom allocators vs Traits, <code>Option&lt;Box&lt;[MaybeUninit&lt;T&gt;]&gt;&gt;</code> and the borrow checkerhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/handrolling-iso8601-support-for-go/Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/handrolling-iso8601-support-for-go/So I need to use ISO8601 durations which Go doesn&rsquo;t supporthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies/Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies/Making compilation pipelines fast, starting with the tokenizerhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/where-is-slice-dot-flatten/Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/where-is-slice-dot-flatten/Go iterators are too minimalist and iter.Seq/iter.Seq2 suckhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/intertwining_registers_and_stack_for_fast_function_calls/Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/intertwining_registers_and_stack_for_fast_function_calls/Designing a calling convention by merging registers and a stack into the purple-garden vmhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/rethinking-cli-arguments-and-substituting-getopt/Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/rethinking-cli-arguments-and-substituting-getopt/Shortcomings of getopt, parsing CLI arguments into flags, no POSIX and a lot of implementation detailshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/neovim-lsp-changes/Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/neovim-lsp-changes/<a href="mailto:nvim@v0.11">nvim@v0.11</a> finally stabilizes lsp configuration &ldquo;shortcuts&rdquo; from nightlyhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/clangd-lsp/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/clangd-lsp/The default config of the clang lsp is old, so you have to specific &ndash;stdhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/json-parser-in-c-with-methods/Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/json-parser-in-c-with-methods/Json parsing in C using function pointers attached to a structhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/syntax-highlight-for-errors/Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/syntax-highlight-for-errors/Adding syntax highlighting to SQL snippets in sqleibniz diagnosticshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/treesitter-neovim/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/treesitter-neovim/Using Treesitter in neovim to conditionally highlight code snippetshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2025/optimizing-libjson/Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/optimizing-libjson/Benchmarking, analysing and improving JSON parsing performancehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/embed-lua-in-rust/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:12:45 +0100contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/embed-lua-in-rust/Improving the SQL DX one blog article at a timehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/making-sql-keyword-suggestions-work/Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/making-sql-keyword-suggestions-work/Implementing levenshtein distance naïvely (and very slow) in Rusthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/optimizing-a-dependency/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/optimizing-a-dependency/Investigating performance issues in a go package for open port lookuphttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/rust-pldev/Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/rust-pldev/Macros, iterators, patterns, error handling and match make Rust almost perfecthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/fun-with-iterators/Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/fun-with-iterators/Go 1.23 added Iterators, so lets build a js like streaming apihttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/libjson/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/libjson/Giving lots of edge cases attention, so I can call my json parser RFC 8259 complianthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/c-hash-map/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/c-hash-map/Minimal hash table implementationhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/go-cpp-interop/Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/go-cpp-interop/Interacting with the Go runtime with c++ (or c, i think)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/faster-inserts/Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/faster-inserts/Doing less enables doing more INSERTshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/favorite-vue-feature/Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/favorite-vue-feature/Sharing state up and down the DOM, My favorite Vue.js feature and its React.js counter parthttps://xnacly.me/posts/2024/jit-with-go/Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/jit-with-go/Proof of concept for compiling arithmetic expressions on the flyhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/calculator-lexer/Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/calculator-lexer/In depth guide on tokenizing input + interpreter setuphttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/growing-array-c/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/growing-array-c/Implementing a go like slice type for and in chttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/disable-firefox-translation/Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/disable-firefox-translation/Disabling popup prompt and translation in firefox@^118https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/result-types-c/Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/result-types-c/Implementing a Rust like Result type for and in chttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-metadata/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-metadata/Stripping metadata and debug informationhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/leetcode-optimization/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/leetcode-optimization/Solving and optimizing a leetcode puzzle in three wayshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/lexer-markdown/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/lexer-markdown/How to tokenize markdown without regular expressionshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/Understanding, implementing and cracking RSAhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/remap-copilot-nvim/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/remap-copilot-nvim/Snippet to remap accepting copilot suggestionshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/java-encoding/Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/java-encoding/Small guide with snippets for encoding and decoding data into csv, json and xmlhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/git-guide/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/git-guide/Small but sufficient guide for github and git beginnershttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/sign-jars/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:35:54 +0100contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/sign-jars/Guide for signing jar files and verifying a jar files signature programmaticallyhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-json/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-json/Guide about working with JSON in go with HTTP server examplehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/corrupted-git/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/corrupted-git/How to fix the &lsquo;object &hellip; is corrupt&rsquo; issue which renders git unusablehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/x-git-sync/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/x-git-sync/A guide to updating a repository periodically using x-git-synchttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-check-for-executable/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/go-check-for-executable/Quick guide with snippet on how to check if a executable is in the systems pathhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/autocommand-nvim/Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/autocommand-nvim/Short guide to adding autocommands to neovim using lua with the vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd interfacehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/top-10-nvim-plugins/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/top-10-nvim-plugins/Top 10 neovim plugins everyone needshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/configure-fzf-nvim/Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/configure-fzf-nvim/Guide to using fzf in neovim with preview and keybindshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2023/vue-electron/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/vue-electron/Guide for setting up and packaging a vue.js project with electron and vitehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/configure-coc-nvim/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/configure-coc-nvim/Guide and example on how to configure the coc.nvim extension and lsp provider (config and keybinds)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/neovim-ped-1/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/neovim-ped-1/Installation, configuration and usage guidehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/notes/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/notes/An overview of my note setuphttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/512kb/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/512kb/This page is now officially a member of the 512kb clubhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/art-of-revision/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/art-of-revision/How to effectively revision your papershttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/web-performance/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/web-performance/Optimize websites for a better user experiencehttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/A guide to help you setup your Linux work machine and configure it for a power users workflowhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/migrate-to-hugo/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/migrate-to-hugo/reasons for migrating your blog to hugohttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/javafx-events/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/javafx-events/Creating custom events in javafx to handle submitting on enter in TextFieldshttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/imgedit2/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/imgedit2/Writing a basic image editor as a comp science project, Part IIhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2022/imgedit1/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/imgedit1/Writing a basic image editor as a comp science project, Part Ihttps://xnacly.me/posts/2021/macbookpro_guide/Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2021/macbookpro_guide/A guide to wifi, touchpad support and more on your macbook pro 2012 using archhttps://xnacly.me/posts/2021/wifi_bridge/Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@xnacly.me (xnacly)https://xnacly.me/posts/2021/wifi_bridge/How to bridge a WIFI connection to LAN