Blog
Posts about Zig, written on a date and against a named compiler. The chapters in the guide are kept current every night. Posts are not: each one shows the Zig version it was written against, so you can see how old it is. For a feed reader, posts are at blog/rss.xml.
The File That Was Not There
A short story about a passphrase tool that worked on one laptop and failed on every other. The fix is @embedFile, and a word list the compiler checks line by line.
The 2 GB Log File at 11 PM
A short story about an on-call engineer, a 2 GB log file, a server where nothing can be installed, and a 274 KB Zig program. Every program in it runs in your browser.
builtin.mode is deprecated: read builtin.optimize
Zig master deprecated builtin.mode, builtin.cpu and builtin.os. Here is what replaces each one, and how to check your own compiler.