2025
Articles and demos from 2025, by month.
January
Fast log counters in PHP
Counting things and timing things in a busy PHP application, with atomic counters in shared memory so the database gets one write a minute instead of one per request.
20 January 2025Synthesizing
Long-form music made ten seconds at a time, with control along the whole timeline.
29 January 2025March
Some JavaScript performance comparisons
In JavaScript there are often many ways to achieve the same common things
14 March 2025October
A queue on any table in PHP and MySQL
How to make any table into an atomic queue without adding extra columns.
14 October 2025