Andy Wingo

North Carolina (USA), 1980

Hacker.

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Andy Wingo 14/05/2012

doing it wrong: cse in guile

Greetings, readers! It's been a little while, but not because I haven't been doing anything, or nothing worth writing about. No, the reason I haven't written recently is because the perceived range of my ignorance has been growing faster...

Andy Wingo 12/03/2012

the merry month of ma

or, from the department of self-inflicted injuriesRecently I saw a bunch of errors in my server logs. People were asking for pages on my web site, but only if they were newer than Thu, 08 Ma 2012 22:44:59 GMT. "Ma"? What kind of a month is that? The...

Andy Wingo 08/03/2012

an in-depth look at the performance of guile's web server

What ho, ladies! And what ho, gentlemen! The hack is on and apace. Today, the topic is performance: of Guile and of its web server, in microseconds and kiloinstructions. Brew up a pot of tea; this is a long article.the problemI have been poking at...

Andy Wingo 21/02/2012

for love and $

Friends, I'm speaking at JSConf.us this year! Yee haw!I would have mentioned this later, but events push me to say something now.You see, I wrote the web server that runs this thing, together with the blog software. I've been hacking on it...

Andy Wingo 21/02/2012

palindromically delimited carnival

Our time aligns on strange axes, sometimes. Last palindrome day, 11/11/11, found me walking the streets of Gothenburg with Werner Koch, the GPG maintainer. Werner said that in Germany, the carnival season opens on the 11th of November, at 11:11:11 in...