Posts

2017-11-21 JIT compiling a subset of Python to x86-64
2017-11-11 Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python
2016-06-08 Embedding binary data in executables
2016-06-07 How GCC fixes bad hand-optimizations
2016-06-07 Sending raw Ethernet frames from Python
2016-05-15 Writing a shared C++ library and loading it in LuaJIT
2016-05-15 Using Lua with C++
2016-05-07 Lambdas, macros and continuations in Scheme — a tutorial
2016-05-07 Commodore 64 assembly coding on the command line
2016-05-06 Building Qt apps on the command line
2016-02-24 Using GNU Global with C++ and Git
2016-02-23 Imputing the presence of the HLA-B27 antigen using your 23andMe genome
2016-02-23 Palindromes in The Gettysburg Address and Shakespeare's collected works
2016-01-23 Adding a TLS certificate to your NearlyFreeSpeech site
2016-01-23 Making a simple virtual machine interpreter in Python
2015-01-24 Compiling and using em-dosbox
2015-01-03 A Short R⁷RS Scheme Tutorial
2014-12-06 Rendering the Mandelbrot Set
2013-12-03 A UDP syslog client in Python
2013-12-01 Two quines in C
2008-01-01 Einstein's problem and a solution by elimination
2006-03-28 Calling C functions from Python
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I'm a software developer at Boost AI. Before that I was a software developer at Roxar, before that a consultant at Bouvet, and before that a systems developer at UMS.

I love coding in all kinds of languages, but especially in Python, C++ and Scheme. My fascination with Scheme resulted in being acknowledged in the R7RS specification. I found some simple errors in it while writing my own interpreter.

Back in the day I wrote a quirky program called jp2a. It's still quite popular. What amuses me is that it's my most widely distributed piece of code: It's available to literally hundreds of millions of people as an easter egg!

Another thing that I find interesting is personal genomics. When 23andMe were forced to take down their health reports, I reimplemented most of them from scratch in Python and C++.

Whenever I have the energy and time, I like holding local talks and write about interesting projects. The two posts on JIT compiling Python in Python even made it to the front page of Hacker News!

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