David Zmick

I am currently a software engineer at Jump Trading, living in Chicago.

Some code is on github@dpzmick and gitlab@dpzmick.

Email: david at dpzmick.com

Projects:

Modular synthesizer - Videos
Building a Homelab
Undergraduate senior thesis - Automatic parallelization of recursive functions in clojure

Blog Posts:

2026-02-06 - AoC Self-Reflections (and a touch of AI doomerism)


    2026-01-19 - Emacs Lisp Performance Oddity

    2021-10-26 - Setting Many Teensy 4.1 Pins at the Same Time

    2021-03-28 - Badly Computing Polynomial Coefficients from Roots (correctly too!)

    2020-09-12 - Audio/Visual Latency Tests

    2020-05-10 - AMD Zen Memory Latency/Bandwidth Considerations

    2020-02-23 - Homelab Act 4: Services and Applications

    2020-01-12 - Homelab Act 3: NAS, ZFS, and NFS

    2020-01-11 - Homelab Act 2: Servers and 10GbE

    2020-01-09 - Homelab Act 1: VPNs

    2019-11-26 - Rust for C/C++ developers

    2019-11-15 - Understanding Pin (for C and C++ Developers)

    2017-05-25 - Outsmarting the Compiler

    2017-01-23 - "Garbage Collection" for Rust Arc Pointers

    2016-12-17 - Audio programming 101

    2016-08-11 - Rust Image Processing DSL

    2015-06-09 - Ants

    2014-06-01 - Study Groups Pt. 2

    2014-05-31 - Study Groups Pt. 1

    2014-01-17 - Decision Matrix