Philippe Gaultier is a software engineer and technical writer specializing in Go and C++. He focuses on debugging, concurrency, DTrace, and identifying subtle bugs and performance issues in complex applications.
46 articles from this blog
A developer revisits an Advent of Code puzzle, optimizing the solution with a new algorithm and implementing it in x86_64 assembly for performance.
Explains how to use Kahn's algorithm for topological sorting to detect cycles in graphs, with a practical example of managing employee hierarchies.
A tutorial on writing a minimal GUI window using x86-64 assembly and the X11 protocol, resulting in a binary under 1 KiB.
A DevOps engineer shares practical strategies and tips for optimizing and speeding up Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.
A technical guide for compiling LLVM, Clang, LLD, and the Zig programming language from source on Alpine Linux.
A tutorial on learning the Scheme programming language by solving the Advent of Code 2018 Day 5 challenge, focusing on iterative REPL use and pattern matching.
