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Writing on software, computer science, AI, hobbies and personal observations, from 2005 to today.

202615 posts

Inlining a language model: four languages, three walls, and a memory bus
Sep 30, 2026· AI
11 min read· 2,113 words
PEP 8 and the standard library: half the violations of 2008, and the one rule it gave up on
Sep 28, 2026· Programming
16 min read· 3,009 words
Porting a typed-decision engine to Apple's foundation models: a thousand tests and the limits
Sep 23, 2026· AI
16 min read· 3,030 words
Ten thousand agents, and who was steering
Sep 21, 2026· AI
7 min read· 1,259 words
Math, agents, and the call to slow down
Sep 20, 2026· AI
5 min read· 915 words
The two applets I was never going to rebuild
Sep 16, 2026· AI
10 min read· 1,991 words
FIRE/J, eighteen years later: the JIT took its cut
Sep 7, 2026· Programming
16 min read· 3,170 words
The Anger of Pharaoh XXXV, reverse engineered
Sep 3, 2026· AI
10 min read· 1,990 words
The static analysis toolbox in 2026
Sep 2, 2026· Tools & Systems
9 min read· 1,648 words
A Small Guide to J%
Aug 27, 2026· Programming
5 min read· 850 words
Reviewing my own thesis, eleven years later
Aug 26, 2026· Programming
4 min read· 779 words
EasyHomebrew: The Native Mac GUI Homebrew Has Been Missing
Apr 22, 2026· Projects & Releases
11 min read· 2,197 words
The Hype vs. Reality of AI Agents: Lessons from Four Landmark Studies
Apr 19, 2026· AI
5 min read· 950 words
Why Your AI Prompts Fail — And How to Fix Them
Apr 4, 2026· AI
7 min read· 1,400 words
The Science of the “Ask”: Why Promptivo is the New Essential for AI Teams
Mar 25, 2026· Projects & Releases
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Research on Domain-Specific Languages (external link, opens in a new tab)(2006.10.13, Diomidis Spinellis)
On Window Managers(2005.10.23, Vasileios Vlachos, not available)
A Pipe Namespace in the Portal Filesystem (external link, opens in a new tab)(2005.04.13, Diomidis Spinellis)
XML Versus Text Files (external link, opens in a new tab)(2005.02.18, Diomidis Spinellis)
The Efficiency of Java and C++, Revisited (external link, opens in a new tab)(2005.02.15, Diomidis Spinellis)
A Survey of Language Popularity (external link, opens in a new tab)(2004.09.25, Diomidis Spinellis)

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202615 posts

Inlining a language model: four languages, three walls, and a memory bus

PEP 8 and the standard library: half the violations of 2008, and the one rule it gave up on

Porting a typed-decision engine to Apple's foundation models: a thousand tests and the limits

Ten thousand agents, and who was steering

Math, agents, and the call to slow down

The two applets I was never going to rebuild

FIRE/J, eighteen years later: the JIT took its cut

The Anger of Pharaoh XXXV, reverse engineered

The static analysis toolbox in 2026

A Small Guide to J%

Reviewing my own thesis, eleven years later

EasyHomebrew: The Native Mac GUI Homebrew Has Been Missing

The Hype vs. Reality of AI Agents: Lessons from Four Landmark Studies

Why Your AI Prompts Fail — And How to Fix Them

The Science of the “Ask”: Why Promptivo is the New Essential for AI Teams

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Python PEP8: Practice what you preach

The Sad Story of MCP and its efficiency

World of Warcraft and the active user boundary

The Alien Encounter (3Iof Nov/Dec2025

The need to migrate from C to Rust

The network computer and the AI computer

Is AI increases developer’s productivity? Maybe not!

Developer Skills Report

The Battleship Potemkin

The strawberrry problem

The power of ten: Rules for developing safety critical code

The outlook for programmers (as of

The not-so-recent case of Intelligent Agents

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BitNet is Here: Run you AI Models on CPUs

GSM8K and the Limitations of LLMs

The onboarding questionnaire

The War Within: WoW’s latest expansion

How to keep your tech team happy

Code quality and System reliability: Key strategies to maintain them

vLLM and LLM-compressor are here

Static class variables

Someone innovates, someone regulates

Good habits

Cyclic dependencies

Python’s pound of flesh

The AI apocalypse and why it will (probably) happen

Why we need a new paradigm to achieve AGI

Dead-code elimination: Java Logging

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Generate your past with Generative AI

Compile-time optimization with final keyword in Java

Elements of style (C-version)

Functional vs cross-functional teams

Class and instance variables in Python

Funny Unix Shell Commands

Integer Class, auto-boxing and Caching

My top 10 favourite quotes

Unreachable statement in Java

Software Engineer Fallacies (part one)

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The (possible and degenerative) fate of AI models

Software Complexity Metrics meet LLMs

Static checks for dynamic languages using LLMs

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The principle of five

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Lean and Mean

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The Thesis

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