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I’m Max Bernstein.
I am a human and programmer. I like to read
books, take photos, and ride bikes in the hills near my house. I tweet
things (and toot
things) about bread, legumes, and
compilers. I did a half-batch of Recurse Center (Fall 2
2024) and really enjoyed it.
You can email me if you so desire. I’m
happy to talk about education, programming languages, cycling, and more.
I like making things.
That’s probably an understatement. Here are some of my favorite projects:
- The National Malware Association, an
organization focused on security and education
- scrapscript.py, an
implementation of the Scrapscript language. Check out the blog
posts (and three,
four, five) too
- Cinder, Instagram’s
performance-oriented fork of CPython—try it out on
trycinder.com (which I built!)
- Skybison (fork of
original), Instagram’s
performance-oriented greenfield implementation of Python
- shru.gg, a website built just so I would have to stop
finding, copying, and pasting that shrug emoji. If you like it, you are
welcome to help keep it running
and some older projects.
I like making things just for fun.
I like teaching.
- I taught CS 4973: ISDT (2024) at Northeastern
- I taught CS 50ISDT (2021) with Tom Hebb at Tufts
- I taught EXP 57 (2018) with Yuki Zaninovich at Tufts
Tom and I wrote Introduction to Software Development
Tooling (ISDT) originally for Tufts (as CS 50 ISDT), and then made some
modifications to teach it at Northeastern (as CS 4973 ISDT).
Yuki and I wrote EXP 57: Tech Trends and
Careers for the Experimental College at Tufts University to teach students
about personal and professional development. In 2021, we taught a
much-condensed version of it as a multi-day workshop at Tufts.
- I TAed CS 4530 at Northeastern (Fall 2023)
- I TAed CS 11 (intro), 15 (data structures), 40 (machine structure), and
Concurrent Programming at Tufts and was the head TA for 11 and 15
I also worked at the Center for Education Research at Stanford (CERAS) in 2014
and taught robotics at a summer camp some time between 2013 and 2018.
Sometimes I contribute to open source projects.
Fun fact: I have now contributed to five different Python runtimes (Skybison,
Cinder, CPython, PyPy, and Pyjion).
I like writing.
I have a blog and now I also have some academic papers!
- Partial Evaluation, Whole-Program Compilation (preprint; do not distribute)
Chris Fallin, Maxwell Bernstein
[PDF] [ARX]
- Dr Wenowdis: Specializing dynamic language C extensions using type information (2024)
Maxwell Bernstein, CF Bolz-Tereick
in PLDI SOAP 2024
[PDF] [DOI] [ARX]
I will happily talk in front of people.
I have some fun facts.