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I am Aaro Luomanen, a computer science student at Aalto University, Finland. This is my blog, you’re welcome to read it :)

2026

July 20Making `wc` 20x faster with parallel state machines
March 08HelloWorld("print")
January 13Building in-browser autocomplete for millions of entries with Radix Tries

2025

November 02Immutable releases on GitHub
October 28IntelliSense in Expo native modules
August 10Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig
May 11Simple & type-safe localization in Rust
April 19Using SFML3 with Zig
January 19Programmatically generating my CV with Typst

2024

October 06How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
July 06Testing my website for visual regressions with Playwright snapshot tests
April 14Creating a battery indicator app for my SteelSeries Arctis headset

2023

December 09Useful functions when doing Advent of Code in Go
November 05Setting up a Windows Dev Drive with Go
September 23Generating OpenGraph images with Hugo
June 30Ylioppilaskokeet
April 22Hosting Vaultwarden on fly.io for free
January 09Writing a semaphore in Go

2022

December 09How to get rid of the annoying firewall prompt on 'go run'
November 11Useful shortcuts and settings in VS Code
August 26Running Stable Diffusion locally on Windows
July 29Building a SPA with Fly.io and Caddy
July 19Why I can't use linux on the desktop yet
June 06Don't copyWith a ThemeData in Flutter
April 01Units in SpeedCrunch
March 19Getting the actual screen height in Flutter Android
March 06First post

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