One of my dear friends and readers (hello Andreas!) asked a very interesting question after reading my previous post about "chaos: When GDB makes you confused" - "what was the thing that suddenly made the boot server faster"? Good question indeed! In the original version of that post, I didn't go further into any of that, but just left the reader in a confused state of despair... After hearing that I left a bit of a "cliffhanger" there in the text, I amended the post with a new paragraph, just to make it clear that I never actually found the reason for the boot server slowness.
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Sometimes when working on chaos, you run into weird errors that takes ages to debug. Like the one that happened to me today - a strange "stack overflow", for code that shouldn't cause any problems at first glance.
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The casual reader can get the impression that I do nothing else right now than debug memory leaks. This is luckily quite far from the truth. 
It just happens to be that I haven't had the chance to write about other things recently.
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Memory leaks are some of the more annoying issues we run into in software engineering. In general, with any kind of software bug, it's always preferable if you can reproduce the problem under controlled, "laboratory-like" circumstances. With certain kinds of problems, this is really hard or almost impossible. Memory leaks tend to lean towards that category. They are not always so easy to reproduce, and it's not always so easy to understand the reason why your (seemingly sane) code is causing a leak. At the same time, they are very rewarding to track down because of the warm feeling you get inside once you figure out root the cause!
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It was quite a long time since I shared my thoughts on this blog, so I thought I'd do a bit of a writeup about some things that I have been thinking about lately. About Electron in particular and web technologies in general, and how the current situation can be improved.
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At the moment, I have three programming languages which are closer to my heart than the other languages I am familiar with. In this text I share some of the reasons for this.
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In this blog post I will share a few thoughts on why I feel TypeScript is a very valuable addition to the JavaScript/web ecosystem, and some of my initial experiences and feelings around it.
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In this post, I will write a little about another of my favourite programming languages, namely, Rust. I started experimenting with Rust in 2015 I think, but it took some time for me to really learn to appreciate it. You could call it a "love at second sight" experience.
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In this blog post, I will share some of my thoughts on the recent years of development in the .NET world, eventually leading up to the release of C# 6.0 in 2015, and C# 7.0 now in 2017 (it was released 10 days before this blog post was written).
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Today, a big change was launched on this blog. Meet, for the first time in years actually, an English version of the blog. At the same time, the branding and URL is also changed from http://per.halleluja.nu to http://perlun.tk http://perlun.eu.org. The previous name also works, but the latter part is the new, official name of the blog.
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