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Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?
Lessons learned from mixins, render props, HOCs, and classes.
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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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Compiling to Assembly from Scratch
Then come along! Let’s make a compiler that goes all the way from source to assembly from scratch—no shortcuts!
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iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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The JavaScript Problem
It makes many aspects of JavaScript sane and convenient, and you get a compilation check that verifies syntax, however it still suffers greatly from weak-typing.
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Profiling Go Programs
How to use Go's built-in profiler to understand and optimize your programs.
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Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee
Why constant-work patterns make systems more reliable, doing the same predictable work regardless of load to avoid surprising failure modes.
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Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z shell
Whenever we look at the zsh manual we wonder why there are no examples or those simply things in (shell) life. The zsh contains many features, but there was no manpage with some examples (like procmailex(5)). That’s why we wrote this manpage.
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Unsafe Rust is harder than C
Or: The Most Expensive Linked List I’ve Ever Written
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A critique of package managers
n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The StandupPackage managers (for programming languages) are evil.11 The term “evil” is being used partially hyperbolic to make a point.To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers…
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Applied Cryptography Engineering
Applied Cryptography taught two generations of developers what they know about crypto, and it is a dreadful instruction manual. The book to replace it with, and what you still have to learn after.
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Debugging Lisp (2015)
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest
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Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
An introduction to the Go context package.
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What Is Zig's Comptime?
Let's take a quick look at what compile-time execution looks like in Zig.
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Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)
The chart classifies programming paradigms according to their kernel languages. Kernel languages are ordered according to the creative extension principle: a new concept is added when it cannot be encoded with only local transformations. Two languages that implement the same paradigm can nevertheless have very…
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Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why They Matter
Hamidreza Soleimani's Blog - Just about what I know
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Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC
How Postgres’ concurrency model coupled with long-lived transactions can degrade the performance of indexes on hot tables in your database.
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Readings in distributed systems
This post is a work in progress.Inspired by a recent purchase of the Red Book, which providesa curated list of important papers around database systems, I’ve decidedto begin assembling a list of im...
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TruffleRuby on the Substrate VM
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
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I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti
I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti. It's a program that displays a badly made ASCII-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch. The code is available under an MIT-like license on github - though of course anybody…
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How Stacks Are Handled in Go
At CloudFlare, We use Go for a variety of services and applications. In this blog post, We're going to take a deep dive into some of the technical intricacies of Go.
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Lil: A Scripting Language
Lil is part of the technology that powers Decker , a multimedia creative tool inspired by HyperCard . Decker uses Lil for adding custom behavior to decks and the widgets within. Lil is designed to be learned in layers, but it is a richly multi-paradigm language which incorporates ideas from imperative, functional…
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Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests
Update: This post received quite a lot of healthy discussion on Hacker News. You can follow that conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119570
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A Rust match made in hell
I often write pieces that showcase how well Rust can work for you, and how it can let you build powerful abstractions, and prevents you from making a bunch of mistakes. If you read something like S...
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F*dging up a Racket
Source code can be found at: https://github.com/dyoo/brainfudge . The latest version of this document lives in http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge .
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How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Signed integers are not allowed to overflow in C and C++, and this helps compilers generate better code. I was interested in how GCC is tak...
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