A blog post about my new book: "Systems Programming with Zig: Build Real Tools with No Hidden Cost". Read the full announcement with chapter overview, where to buy and GitHub code: mtsoukalos.eu/2026/06/system… Happy Zig hacking! @PacktPublishing
How to use Command Line Arguments in Zig. How std.process.Init hands you the arguments in Zig 0.17, why toSlice() wants an arena and how to walk them with an iterator and no allocator at all. mtsoukalos.eu/2026/10/comman…#ziglang#Zig#SystemsProgramming
"Συνήθως η έλλειψη παιδείας δημιουργεί κάποια συμπλέγματα, από τα οποία προσπαθούμε να ξεφύγουμε, αλλά δεν ξεφεύγουμε ποτέ. Και αυτό κάνει θόρυβο." ––Γιάννης Μπέζος
The Tower of Babel failed because people stopped understanding each other. Moses had to learn to delegate. Gideon won with 300 people, not 32,000. I wrote a post about what developers can learn from the Old Testament: mtsoukalos.eu/2026/10/what-d…
“If you do not have a vision about what you want to do, if you do not have a plan about what you want to do, if you do not act on it every day, it is not going to happen. It is just not going to happen.“ —Tim McGraw
Just noticed that Systems Programming with Zig is currently #1 New Release on Amazon! Really grateful for all the support. Thank you amazon.com/Systems-Programmi…
21 ideas from The Black Swan by @nntaleb — the turkey, Mediocristan vs Extremistan, silent evidence, the barbell, the antilibrary. Read more: mtsoukalos.eu/2026/09/21-ide…
When you read the headlines on mainstream Greek sites, you are not just seeing bad journalism. You are seeing the exact level at which they have decided we should function as a society. #journalism