Thorsten Ball

@thorstenball

Author of . Monkey/Ruby/Go/JavaScript/C/Unix. I like to program where the rubber hits the road — wherever that may be.

Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Joined November 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 Nov 2016

    My book "Writing An Interpreter In Go" is now available! Get it here:

    6 replies 51 retweets 98 likes
  2. Jun 10

    Here we go! My tiny Racket script now lies in ~/bin and is usable from inside Vim.

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  3. Jun 10

    Played around with Racket this morning, generating Markdown TOCs. This is really fun.

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  4. Jun 9

    Can someone take this video and replace "Money" with "Code"? "Show me the code!" I'll get some mileage out of it.

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  5. Jun 9

    It doesn't help that most of the public information about V8 is rather abstract. I'd love to see a source code walkthrough.

    1 reply 3 likes
  6. Jun 9

    The more I read about V8's architecture, the more mind-boggling it becomes.

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  7. Jun 9

    This talk by gives a great overview of the V8 architecture and its history. Super interesting.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Wrote a few words on magic, global vars, and why func init should be a red flag:

    5 replies 70 retweets 136 likes
  9. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    when I sign off on my emails with "Best," I am not wishing you the best. I am saying I am the best.

    52 replies 5,109 retweets 15,483 likes
  10. Jun 8

    "You Are Not Google" I think I want this as a poster.

    1 reply 46 retweets 46 likes
  11. Jun 8

    The most important section: how to quit vi.

    2 replies 4 likes
  12. Jun 8

    There you go. vi explained.

    1 reply
  13. Jun 7

    Current status: I have written something with around 10k words. I'm super anxious to share it. But I don't know where and how yet.. Ugh.

    1 reply 3 likes
  14. Jun 7

    Reminder for the other timezones out there:

    I'm collecting Monkey implementations in the wild. Straight copies from the book, enhanced versions, other languages -- anything! Hit me up!
    1 reply 1 like
  15. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    Just finished the LLVM chapter: the last one. The book on creating languages is now complete!

    2 replies 19 retweets 74 likes
  16. Jun 7

    I'm collecting Monkey implementations in the wild. Straight copies from the book, enhanced versions, other languages -- anything! Hit me up!

    5 replies
  17. Jun 7

    Nice

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  18. Jun 6

    I'm super happy to say that there is now a brand-new testimonial on by none other than ! Thanks Mitchell!

    1 reply 8 likes
  19. Jun 6

    I want / for German articles. I feel bad about how rusty my German vocabulary has gotten...

  20. Jun 5

    I think my favorite programming paradigm is what I call code minimalism. The less code, the better. If you can remove it, remove it.

    1 retweet 9 likes
  21. Retweeted
    May 24

    “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” - Martin Fowler

    11 replies 858 retweets 1,269 likes

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