Parallel merge sort in Erlang. Thoughts on an Erlang-y way of implementing a combined activity stream (e.g. Facebook and Twitter). Activity streams are a Really Hard Problem—as far as I know there’s no best practise for implementing them yet.
Recent articles
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- My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
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