thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

I’m a senior software engineer. I use PHP, Zig, Java, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, SQL, and Python. Joined December 2024

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

2 months ago

Random project I made while learning #erlang: notes.matthewtolman.dev All notes stored in memory, deleted after either certain number of views/time. Used it to learn gen servers, custom supervisors, and interprocess communication

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gingerBill @TheGingerBill

3 months ago

I will be EXTREMELY frank but I will just state it: I don't think people are entitled to other people's time just because they gave up their own time to write something. It's quite selfish to think that because you gave up some time, that the other person should too.

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

3 months ago

Some ramblings on authorization for users vs systems: matthewtolman.com/article/author…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

4 months ago

I've been experimenting with hosting on bare metal servers. Wrote up my thoughts: matthewtolman.com/article/2025_0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

4 months ago

My first impressions of deploying #erlang to bare metal servers matthewtolman.com/article/2025_0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Recently moved away from a purely static site to move of a typical db-driven blog model matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Final part of building channels & select in C++ - Fixing an infinite loop in select matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Adding timeouts to a C++ version of Go's select matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Making Go's select statement in C++ matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Making Channels in C++ Part 4 - making channels non-blocking matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Part 3 of my building a channel series - closing channels matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

Part 2 of building channels in C++: Limiting Size http://localhost:8000/article/2025-04-limiting-channel-sizes.html

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

5 months ago

First part of a blog series for building channels in C++ (these are thread-based channels and not coroutine/fiver based channels) matthewtolman.com/article/2025-0…

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thatprogrammerguy @thatprogramguy

8 months ago

Relearning C and realizing how amazing asserts are. I did miss Zig’s ReleaseSafe which keeps asserts in release, so I made my own version that doesn’t compile away. It’s a much needed improvement that #zig got right #C