DevBlogs.fyi

When he’s not busy collecting our poo into small plastic bags, Phil is allowed to moonlight as a software engineer. Currently he works on search stuff at Algolia. Before that he was a backend engineer at Qatalog🪦 and before that he worked on the Firefox Accounts team at Mozilla.

Clear, fun explanations of Linux, debugging, networking, and systems fundamentals.

Deep dives on performance, engineering culture, reliability, and measurement.

World-class systems performance analysis: observability, profiling, and methodology.

Practical posts on data tooling, Unix text processing, and developer workflows.

Systems programming storytelling (Rust, debugging, low-level internals) with great narrative.

Thoughtful essays on UI engineering, React mental models, and software design.

Databases, distributed systems, programming language design, and engineering practice.

Beautiful, visual explanations of complex topics in graphics and programming concepts.

Rust, tooling, editor/language server design, and practical engineering notes.

C, systems, compilers, and practical essays with strong opinions and great clarity.

High-quality deep dives into runtimes, compilers, and performance engineering.

Distributed systems, data infrastructure, and correctness-oriented engineering writing.