Eli Bendersky’s long-running programming blog (since 2003) documents practical software engineering insights, open-source projects, and deep technical explorations—written for learning, reference, and the joy of coding.
12 articles from this blog
A developer shares lessons learned from building a new Go project (watgo) with LLM agents, emphasizing code review and human oversight.
Notes on the trigonometric Fourier series, including coefficient derivation and connection to linear algebra in Hilbert space.
A tutorial explaining how to adjust amplitude, frequency, and phase shift of sinusoids using parameters A, w, and θ.
Discussion on whether WebAssembly is a true stack machine, comparing it to Forth and analyzing its design.
Guide to debugging WebAssembly (WASM) code using Chrome DevTools, including breakpoints, stepping, and exception handling.
Announcing watgo, a pure Go WebAssembly toolkit for parsing WAT, validating, and encoding/decoding WASM binaries.
Explains Lagrange interpolation polynomials, a method for finding a polynomial that perfectly fits a given set of data points.
The author describes using an LLM (Codex) to rewrite the pycparser project, replacing its PLY-based parser with a hand-written recursive-descent parser.
A developer details adding a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler to their long-running Bob project, focusing on using the WASM GC extension.
A technical case study on mdBook's plugin architecture, focusing on its preprocessor mechanism for customizing book generation from Markdown.
A modern Python and WebAssembly translation of the classic "Let's Build a Compiler" tutorial, exploring its enduring relevance.
Explains the WebAssembly Basic C ABI, covering how C types like scalars and pointers are represented and passed in WASM.
