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Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
While not yet at version 1.0, Zig is about to reach a new level of maturity and stability.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 3,470 posts.
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Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
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Multiprocess Firefox
Since this January, David Anderson and I have been working on making Firefox use multiple processes. Tom Schuster (evilpie on IRC) joined us as an intern this summer, and Felipe Gomes, Mark Hammond…
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
Please read this update instead: Why Create a New Unix Shell? (2021) . This page is obsolete!
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A few words on Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
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I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable
I had to get there eventually. I had a blog post called “I Wrote a Fast Hashtable” and another blog post called “I Wrote a Faster Hashtable.” Now I finally wrote the fastest…
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Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
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If not React, then what?
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
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An Unlikely Database Migration
From JSON Files to etcd: A Tailscale Database Migration Story
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The worst API ever made (2014)
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
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What's Functional Programming All About?
There are many descriptions floating around the internet, trying to explain functional programming in simple terms. Unfortunately, most discuss details only loosely related to functional programming, while others focus on topics that are completely irrelevant. So of course, I had to write my own!
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Main is usually a function – when is it not?
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
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Python in the Windows 10 May update
Python might be hard to install on Windows, but with the latest Windows 10 update, you can type "python" to find it in the Microsoft Store.
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A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
In my first decade writing Makefiles, I developed the bad habit of liberally using GNU Make’s extensions. I didn’t know the line between GNU Make and the portable features guaranteed by POSIX. Usually it didn’t matter much, but it would become an annoyance when building on non-Linux systems, such as on the various…
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Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense
In Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test, Kevin Lacker found that GPT-3 does well answering simple factual questions like “Who was president of the United States in 1955?”, but also happily answered absurd qu…
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Clojure Design Patterns
Disclaimer: Most patterns are easy to implement because we use dynamic typing, functional programming and, of course, Clojure. Some of them look wrong and ugly. It’s okay. All characters are fake, coincidences are accidental.
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A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.
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How Go mitigates supply chain attacks
Go tooling and design help mitigate supply chain attacks at various stages.
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Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
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State of Clojure 2020
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
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Creating Shazam in Java
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Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
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Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust
(N.B. The word “fuck” appears multiple times in this post. I recommend that the reader temporarily not consider “fuck” as profanity, as it isn’t used that way here.)
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APIs, robustness, and idempotency
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
Haiku uses a custom vector image format to store icons. This is surprising both because most OSes consider bitmaps to be totally sufficient to represent icons and because there are plenty of vector graphics formats out this (e.g. SVG). The goal of the Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is to make vector icon files as…