Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• PCRE in Go in 2026: wasm2go Is Ready, PCRE2 Isn't

  Updated:29 Oct, 2026

  wasm2go now carries go-sqlite3 and go-re2 without cgo, so why not PCRE2? Nobody maintains that build, the JIT can't come along, and backtracking on hostile input is a problem no runtime fixes. Until that changes I use regexp2 with limits.

• Mapping SQLite's WAL-Index into WebAssembly Memory

  28 Oct, 2026

  A Windows-only WAL corruption bug in the cgo-free go-sqlite3 driver, traced from my issue #404 and PR #405 to the maintainer's PR #413, and why mapping the wal-index directly into WebAssembly linear memory is the right fix.

• The House, the Father, and the Tree: Following Tarkovsky Through Time

  21 Oct, 2026

  From revolution and exile to The Sacrifice and the worldwide legacy of Tarkovsky's cinema: an exploration of memory, faith, and time.