Articles by pierremenard
4

How I Accidentally Created the Fastest CSV Parser Ever Made (sanixdk.xyz)

2

Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD (btxx.org)

1

Async Traits Can Be Directly Backed by Manual Future Impls (yoshuawuyts.com)

1

The LLM Engineer's Almanac (modal.com)

1

The LLM Engine Advisor (modal.com)

3

LLM Engine Advisor (modal.com)

11

Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022) (burntsushi.net)

5

New Intel CPU Flaw Bypasses Spectre v2 Defenses to Leak Kernel Memory (cyberinsider.com)

30

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser (packett.cool)

1

Warpspeed: Building a record/replay debugger for macOS (2024) (nickgregory.me)

1

A site for making bots for the Fediverse (fedibot.club)

1

K Slices, K Dices (beyondloom.com)

47

Projects for Old OS X (jonathanalland.com)

2

How to Sync Anything (neighbourhood.ie)

15

Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025 (waspdev.com)

3

Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs (github.com/dendibakh)

1

Optimized a Java function and cut production CPU from >90% to 70% (longmha.blogspot.com)

1

Impromptu Disaster Recovery (fasterthanli.me)

21

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances (fokus.cool)

1

Spade, a hardware description language inspired by modern software languages (spade-lang.org)

1

Zest: A programming language for malleable and legible systems (github.com/jamii)

1

Dropping RISC-V Support (chimera-linux.org)

51

Great software design looks underwhelming (seangoedecke.com)

3

Take a break: Rust match has fallthrough (huonw.github.io)

3

Leader Election with S3 and If-Match (quanttype.net)

1

What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9 [pdf] (adi.onl)

5

BadSeek: How to Backdoor Large Language Models (sshh.io)

4

Refined: Simple Refinement Types for Rust (jordankaye.dev)

2

Unix Recovery Legend (1986) (torontomu.ca)

1

Making a simple HTTP webserver in C (bruinsslot.jp)

54

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016) (unity.com)

1

Nvidia GPU Glossary (modal.com)

1

Ucacher: Speeding up GitHub Actions via syscall instrumentation (earthly.dev)

2

A brief history of our serverless future (thundergolfer.com)

1

A brief history of our serverless future (thundergolfer.com)

1

Claude Computer Use with Serverless Sandboxes (yasyf.com)

3

Nvidia Container Toolkit Vulnerability (wiz.io)

1

Beat GPT-4o at Python with 100 dumb LLaMAs (modal.com)

1

Sniffing out crypto miners using syscall signatures (modal.com)

1

Catching cryptominers using gVisor syscall signatures (modal.com)

8

Catching crypto miners using syscall signatures (modal.com)

1

Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability (arstechnica.com)

1

Computer Graphics Wheel of Reincarnation (twitter.com/casualeffects)

2

How Ramp automated receipt processing with fine-tuned LLMs (modal.com)

29

ComfyUI Workflows from Prototype to Production (modal.com)

33

Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust (modal.com)

2

LLM embedding all of Wikipedia in under 15 minutes (modal.com)

2

Show HN: Turbo.art – an open-source playground for real-time Stable Diffusion (turbo.art)

2

Show HN: Turbo.art – real-time drawing style transfer (github.com/modal-labs)

2

Show HN: Turbo.art – real-time drawing with Stable Diffusion (github.com/modal-labs)

13

Show HN: turbo.art - an open-source creative playground (turbo.art)

1

Open-Source Tokenizer Visualizer (github.com/1rgs)

2

A beginner's guide to LLM fine-tuning (modal.com)

2

A beginner's guide to LLM fine-tuning (modal.com)

1

Slack Face Stretcher (github.com/1rgs)

2

Modal is now generally available (modal.com)

50

How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop (github.com/modal-labs)

4

Devlooper: A self-fixing program synthesis agent (github.com/modal-labs)

1

Devlooper: A self-fixing program synthesis agent (github.com/modal-labs)

6

Devlooper: An autonomous program synthesis agent with a secure sandbox (github.com/modal-labs)

2

BoomBot: Discord bot for on-demand music production (github.com/modal-labs)

2

Replace yourself with a fine-tuned LLM on Slack (github.com/modal-labs)

1

Replace your CEO with an LLM-powered slackbot (github.com/modal-labs)

3

Replace your CEO with an LLM (github.com/modal-labs)

8

DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM (modal.com)

87

QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B (github.com/modal-labs)

3

QuiLLMan: Open-source, serverless voice chat with Vicuna (github.com/modal-labs)

2

Xtrakt: Get structured data out of every web page (github.com/bryanhpchiang)

2

Open-source, serverless text-to-speech (themetavoice.xyz)

7

Open-source serverless text-to-speech (github.com/metavoicexyz)

192

Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 (github.com/elanmart)