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Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript
Taking Bret Victor's notion of connecting to your creation and turning it into a ClojureScript live game editor.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 165 posts.
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Golang at CloudFlare
The other day I blogged here about our new Railgun software that speeds up the back haul between CloudFlare data centers and our clients' servers. At CloudFlare we're using a number of different languages depending on the task.
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Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule
This document describes the un-development and un-release schedule for Python 2.8.
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JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Suffering-oriented programming
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a hu...
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About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets
A small CSS library to make browser defaults more consistent
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Python Application Deployment with Native Packages
Speed, reproducibility, easy rollbacks, and predictability is what we strive for when deploying our diverse Python applications. And that’s what we achieved by leveraging virtual environments and Linux system packages.
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Don't use bcrypt
(Edit: Some numbers for you people who like numbers) If you're already using bcrypt, relax, you're fine, probably. However, if you're ...
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Memory Reordering Caught in the Act
When writing lock-free code in C or C++, one must often take special care to enforce correct memory ordering. Otherwise, surprising things can happen. Intel lists several such …
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists
Linked lists look harmless until they start detonating your game at runtime. This is the bug pattern far too many programmers miss.
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Dangling by a Trivial Feature
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Vim Koans
These koans have been independently translated into Chinese (archived) , thanks to Wanzhang Sheng, and into Spanish (archived) , thanks to Daniel Campoverde Carrión.
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Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance
After the last post about high performance, high level programming, Slava Pestov, of Factor fame, wondered whether it was generally true that “if you want good performance you have to write C…
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Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
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Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0
You may have heard last week how Innokenty Mihailov’s great Enumerable::Lazy feature was accepted into the Ruby 2.0 code base. But you may not have heard about an even more significant change that was merged into Ruby 2.0 in January: a new algorithm for garbage collection called “Bitmap Marking.” The developer behind…
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Adding a new statement to Python
This article is an attempt to better understand how the front-end of Python works. Just reading documentation and source code may be a bit boring, so I'm taking a hands-on approach here: I'm going to add an until statement to Python.
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What I Hate About Git
Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things wit…
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The Linux Graphics Stack
This is an introductory overview post for the Linux Graphics Stack, and how it currently all fits together. I initially wrote it for myself after having conversations with people like Owen Taylor, Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about this stack. I had to go back to them every month or so and learn the stuff from the…
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The Little C Function From Hell
Does the standard say whether or not “char” is “unsigned char” or “signed char”? (I guess not from what you wrote above.)
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Storing Passwords Securely
Why "SHA 256-bits enterprise-grade password encryption" is only slightly better than storing passwords in plain text, and better ways to do it.
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/dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them
Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd , respectively.
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JavaScript Needs Blocks
While reading Hacker News posts about JavaScript, I often come across the misconception that Ruby's blocks are essentially equivalent to JavaScript's "first class functions". Because the ability to pass functions around, especially when you can create them anonymously, is extremely powerful, the fact that both…
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True Scala complexity
Due to the recent php2shell vulnerability , to save time and effort for both users and maintainers alike, and out of an overabundance of caution, all Scripts sites have had PHP (php-cgi) disabled until a patch is available and backported.
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Both true and false: a Zen moment with C
I ran into a really fun bug at work yesterday, where I discovered that my C program was branching down logically inconsistent code paths. After drinking another cup of coffee and firing up GDB I realized that somehow, a boolean variable in my code was simultaneously testing as both true and not true.
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