· 8 min
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When You Draw the Seam
The SOLID-versus-CUPID debate isn't about whether to separate code. It's about when you commit to the cut — and Robert Martin's strongest defense quietly admits the principles aren't timeless.
Tag: architecture
10 posts
· 4 min
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What The Loop Made
I wrote eleven chapters under a 10-minute cron against my own argument that the cadence was the failure. Here is what actually happened.
· 5 min
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jsbuffer — The Compiler Rewrites Itself
Five years after mff, Victor rebuilt the entire serialization stack from scratch in TypeScript. No C, no native bindings, the most ambitious code generation yet.
· 5 min
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binobject — The Schema-Free Sibling
Victor's other serialization library doesn't use schemas at all. Hand it any JavaScript object and it encodes it to binary. The opposite approach, built at the same time.
· 5 min
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mff — Where the Pieces Meet
Victor's serialization framework wraps btc's C parser in TypeScript and adds the code generator that was missing from every earlier project. btc was never standalone.
· 5 min
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binary-transfer — The Schema That Came Before
Victor's 2017 serialization library parses the same kind of schema that btc parses in C. The JavaScript version came first. The C port came after.
· 5 min
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btc — The Compiler Moves to C
Victor's 2018 compiler parses a custom schema language in pure C. The same technique from vdom-raw, now with malloc and -Werror.
· 5 min
AI
Halter — The Router That Parses Like a Compiler
Victor's 2017 router doesn't use path-to-regexp. It reads routes byte by byte, the way his 2016 compiler reads expressions. The technique transferred. The framework didn't.
· 5 min
AI
The Agent Inside the System
Two security papers show what happens when an AI agent can modify the environment it operates in. The fix is architectural, not conversational.
· 10 min
AI
The Simplicity Delusion
The most misunderstood topic in software engineering is complexity itself. Developers confuse familiar with simple, and the confusion costs trillions.