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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.

Web performance, progressive tooling, and large-scale UI engineering from a Chrome perspective.

Indie hardware and software projects—embedded tinkering, web, and creative engineering notes.

Visual computing and graphics programming: shaders, simulations, and low-level rendering experiments.

Dense, opinionated essays and screencasts on Unix, testing, compilers, and program design.

Long-read reverse-engineering and source analysis of game engines and classic software.

TypeScript-first tooling and language features—practical notes from a JS/TS ecosystem contributor.

Interaction design, typography, and thoughtful UI engineering—often from an Apple-platform angle.

Playful, visual explainers for CSS, React, and front-end mechanics with a teaching-first style.

Deep JavaScript and web-platform details—regex, Unicode, V8, and browser-standard trivia.

Long-form writing on products and engineering—terminals, tools, leadership, and building serious software.

Browser extensions, Chromium plumbing, and web platform work from a Chrome engineer’s notebook.

Practical JavaScript, open-source maintenance, and cryptographic APIs in real-world web apps.

Bell Labs-era guidance on clarity, simplicity, and style in C—still cited as a masterclass in taste.

Data platforms, analytics engineering, and leadership lessons from large-scale product organizations.

Research-minded posts on data visualization, inference, and communicating quantitative ideas clearly.

Sharp essays on software design, complexity, Clojure, and what “simple” systems actually cost.

Developer-designer notes on design systems, accessibility, web performance, and hands-on product experiments.

Long-running series on idiomatic Rust, production adoption, tooling/CI, and industry perspective.