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This book walks through building an interpreter for Monkey, a small programming language designed by Thorsten Ball in his book "Writing An Interpreter In Go".

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Making HTTP Requests in Zig 0.16.0 (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

13 October 2026·6 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.16.0 Zig/Http

Making HTTP requests in Zig 0.16.0 with client.fetch(), sending headers and a JSON body, and building a reusable client for GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

Writing to files using buffers in Zig 0.16.0

8 October 2026·4 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.16.0 Zig/Buffers Zig/Files

How to write to a file in Zig 0.16.0 with the new Io interface, using a stack buffer or an allocator, and why you need to call flush() at the end.

Reading from files using buffers in Zig 0.16.0

7 October 2026·5 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.16.0 Zig/Buffers Zig/Files

How to read a file in Zig 0.16.0 with the new Io interface, in fixed-size chunks with a stack buffer, the whole file with an allocator, and line by line.

The Joy of Programming with AI

8 April 2026·2 mins

Domain/Ai

My thoughts and ramblings on coding with AI, why the joy of solving problems is fading for me and what the future might hold for software engineers.

How I Use AI

3 March 2026·3 mins

Domain/Ai

How I use AI when I code, at work and on personal projects, and why I still turn it off from time to time.

Making HTTP Requests in Zig (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

8 February 2026·6 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.15.2 Zig/Http

Making GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests in Zig 0.15.2 with client.fetch() from std.http, and why I wrapped it in something reusable.

Parsing and Serializing JSON in Zig with std.json

6 February 2026·4 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.15.2 Zig/Json

Serializing and deserializing JSON in Zig with std.json, how the Parsed wrapper handles memory, and what breaks when your JSON doesn’t match your struct.

Reading from files using buffers in Zig

3 February 2026·2 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.15.2 Zig/Buffers Zig/Files

Different ways to read a file in Zig 0.15.2, in chunks with a stack buffer, all at once with an allocator, byte by byte and line by line.

Writing to files using buffers in Zig

2 February 2026·4 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.15.2 Zig/Buffers Zig/Files

Writing to a file in Zig 0.15.2 using a buffer on the stack or the heap, getting a writer interface and writing bytes to the file.

Command Line Args and Env Vars in Zig 0.16.0 (Init and Minimal)

20 January 2026·3 mins

Language/Zig Zig/0.16.0

Zig 0.16.0 deleted os.argv and os.environ, so now main can take std.process.Init or Init.Minimal to get command line arguments and environment variables.

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