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Apr 28, 2026 — 11 min — Platform & AI

Why I Reach for DuckDB When Reading Parquet from Swift or Zig

What an oversized iOS binary, a Linux linker error, and a SQL boundary teach about embedding DuckDB as the Parquet reader for languages without a mature native library.

data engineering parquet

Apr 27, 2026 — 13 min — Systems Notes

State Machines in Go, Elixir, Swift, and Zig

Why a Go retry loop ran forever because the attempt counter lived on the loop instead of the state, and what the runtime guarantees of Elixir, Swift, and Zig change about which state-machine idioms are honest in each.

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Articleyeokhengmeng.comJun 29, 2026Permalink

Bringing Swift to the Apple II

Yeo Kheng Meng

This is a wonderful tiny-hardware project: a Swift-flavored language environment for the Apple II, implemented through a bytecode VM instead of pretending full modern Swift can fit on a 1 MHz 6502 with tens of kilobytes of RAM. The constraints make the engineering visible: disks, keyboard quirks, memory banking, integer-only tradeoffs, and separate tool families instead of one universal binary.

The part I want to keep near the agent-workflow notes is the process. The project worked because the AI had a human boundary around it: numbered phases, design docs, acceptance tests, and manual architectural calls. That is the healthy version of agent leverage: not autonomous magic, but fast iteration inside a context the builder keeps sharpening.