Phil Eaton is a staff engineer working on Postgres and software internals, sharing insights on databases, systems engineering, and life deep in the software stack.
152 articles from this blog
A technical guide to building a basic Lisp compiler in JavaScript, covering parsing, code generation, and assembly output.
Explores techniques for compiling dynamic languages like Scheme and JavaScript by leveraging existing interpreter runtime code.
Introducing btest, a minimal, language-agnostic test runner for verifying command outputs, originally created for compiler testing.
Practical tips for writing clear, readable technical documentation and notes, focusing on structure, formatting, and user psychology.
A guide to writing a simple JSON parser, covering lexical and syntactic analysis, with a practical implementation example.
A developer shares their experience using FreeBSD CURRENT as a daily driver for software development, detailing the setup, workflow, and hardware issues that led them to switch back to Arch Linux.
A review of Paul Graham's 'ANSI Common Lisp' book, comparing it to other Lisp resources and praising its clarity and conciseness.
A guide to setting up a minimal Common Lisp project using ASDF and Quicklisp, including creating packages and systems.
An interview about BSDScheme, a Scheme interpreter, and the developer's experience switching from C to the D programming language for its features.
A developer shares challenges and solutions from building a Scheme interpreter in D, covering data representation, function evaluation, and AST design.
A guide to automating FreeBSD deployment on Linode using custom disk images and a Python script, bypassing manual installation.
A technical tutorial on building a basic web service using the Racket programming language, exploring its web server libraries and syntax.
