Chidi Williams

Writing

Cyber for Builders: A Review
February 9, 2025
2023: Year in Review
December 30, 2023
GPT Automator: A voice-controlled personal assistant for your Mac
February 13, 2023
A Static Type Checker for B-Minor
August 28, 2022
Generic Zero Values in Go
August 12, 2022
Stacks on a Grid
July 30, 2022
Podcast: Inside the Techosystem
July 20, 2022
Crafting Interpreters: A Review
June 21, 2022
On Recursive Descent and Pratt Parsing
May 30, 2022
How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in JavaScript
April 7, 2022
Pointers in Go
February 27, 2022
The Temporal Dead Zone in JavaScript
February 18, 2022
Ambiguous Grammars
February 12, 2022
Getting Good
February 6, 2022
Notes on Crafting Interpreters: Go
January 21, 2022
A Wordle Solver
January 12, 2022
2021: Year in Review
January 1, 2022
A Refresher on Software Vulnerabilities
December 29, 2021
The Humane Representation of Programs
December 20, 2021
25 Days of Advent
December 12, 2021
Recent Reads: The Outsider and Before the Law
November 28, 2021

Writing

Fooled by Complexity
November 21, 2021
Text Search with Tries
November 13, 2021
Introductions, Math Games, and UI Optimizations
October 26, 2021
Redraw Only The Diff
October 23, 2021
The Game Called Life
October 22, 2021
Quadtrees in the Wild
September 21, 2021
The Tradeoffs We Make
August 6, 2021
Why Chrome Runs So Many Processes
July 4, 2021
The Proof-of-Work Spam Filter
May 19, 2021
Gifts and Games
May 3, 2021
GOTO Reconsidered
April 18, 2021
Building an Expression Evaluator (continued)
March 17, 2021
Building an Expression Evaluator
February 22, 2021
2020: Year in Review
December 30, 2020
Inside a Go Slice
November 19, 2020
Building Ayòayò: An Unbeatable Player
July 5, 2020
Building Ayòayò: Web Application
June 27, 2020
Building Ayòayò: CLI Application
June 20, 2020
Building Ayòayò: Implementation
June 14, 2020
Partially Updating an Embedded Mongo Document in Go
May 21, 2020
Writing Cleaner Go Web Servers
May 1, 2020

Projects

SysDsgn
Community hosting conversations on software systems design. Organizers of SysDsgn Twitter Spaces and SysConf.
GPT Automator
A voice-controlled Mac assistant using Whisper and GPT-3.
Buzz Captions
Speech-to-text transcription and translation app on macOS powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Buzz
Open-source, cross-platform version of Buzz Captions.
Lox Playground
A web-based REPL and web editor for running Lox programs. The playground runs Loxjs, a JavaScript implementation of the tree-walking interpreter from Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters.
Glox
A Go implementation of the Lox interpreter.
Wordle AI
A Wordle solver.
Expression Evaluator
A math expression evaluator built with JavaScript.
GitHub Stories
A playful Chrome extension for viewing stories on your GitHub dashboard.

Talks

Hearing Between the Lines
August 16, 2023
Classical Synchronization Problems
December 7, 2023