Yorick Peterse

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I'm a software developer from The Netherlands, with over a decade of software development experience. I'm the author of and work full-time on the Inko programming language. Please consider supporting my work by donating using GitHub Sponsors. Before working on Inko, I worked as a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab. For more details, refer to my resume.

You can find me on GitHub, GitLab and Reddit. If you wish to contact me through Email, my Email address is yorick at this domain name. I'm not interested in unsolicited Emails from recruiters, and mark such Emails as spam.

Articles

Building a better and scalable system for data migrations
Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?
How to write a code formatter
What it was like working for GitLab
A decade of developing a programming language
Switching to Fedora Silverblue
I'm leaving GitLab to work on Inko full-time
Friendship ended with the garbage collector
libffi-rs 1.0.0 is released
10 years of software development
Deciding when to collect garbage
Not beating C with 96 lines of Inko
Writing a self-hosting compiler for Inko
Inko: a brief introduction
Compiling XPath to Ruby
Hello, GitLab!
Oga 1.0 Released
Oga: a new XML/HTML parser for Ruby
Hacking extconf.rb
Debugging With Pry
Use BCrypt Fool!