Self-describing formats, but at what cost?

An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think

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(and some things I still don't understand)

Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.

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Making allocators async is a bad great idea

A deep dive into the potential benefits, and awkward drawbacks, by making all allocations async and fallible

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Just simple enough to cause problems

An overview of how devices decide how to split streams of bits and bytes into frames, and the things that can go wrong

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A somewhat reasonable use of dynamic linking

Amos presents rubicon, which through terrible dynamic linking crimes, brought joy again into developing their website

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