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Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
(update 26-Aug-2020: the MSVC team has recently added C11language support to their roadmap, hooray!)
Most cited
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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Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
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Apple II DOS source code
Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was fully assembled and ready to use with any display monitor. The version with 4K of memory cost $1298. It had color, graphics, sound, expansion slots, game paddles, and a built-in BASIC programming language.
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The Path to Parallel JavaScript
Between the coming release of ES6 and unrelenting competition for JIT performance, these are exciting times for JavaScript. But an area where JS still lags ...
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Announcing GenStage
GenStage is a new Elixir behaviour for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes. In this blog post we will cover the background that led us to GenStage, some example use cases, and what we are exploring for future releases.
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Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
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Rust 2020: GUI and Community
In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance (which, to me, includes startup time, RAM footprint, and…
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How I Start: Elixir
Portal is a game that consists of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects from one place to another.
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Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)
This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk on file safety with a mobile-friendly non-bloated format .
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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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The anatomy of a Godot API call
UPDATE: This article has started an ongoing conversation with the Godot devs. They care about the issues raised, and would like to improve things. Significant improvements will almost certainly be made, although it’s still early days and it’s unclear what will change and by how much. I am encouraged by the response. I…
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Build Your Own FPGA (2012)
The Open 7400 Logic Competition is a crowd-sourced contest with a simple but broad criteria for entry: build something interesting out of discrete logic chips. It's now in its second year, and this time around I was inspired to enter it.
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Doom Rendered via Checkboxes
WebAssembly meets 16000 HTML checkboxes.
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Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly ...
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Building a QNX 7 Desktop
Describes the process of building a QNX 7 x86_64 machine from (almost) scratch.
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under python , tech , coding , damn-cool-algorithms
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Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
Enhance the Java programming language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns and type patterns can be nested to enable a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This is a preview language feature .
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Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
Update 26 Sep 2020: A followup to this post is Towards principled reactive UI.
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A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete
Many people are surprised to learn that `sed`, a seemingly simple text filtering program, is actually Turing complete. This realization prompts the question: how can a text processing utility achieve such computational power? The answer lies in sed's fundamental operations. Essentially, sed functions as a miniature...
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Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs
This post assumes some basic C skills. Linux puts you in full control. This is not always seen from everyone’s perspective, but a power user loves to be in control. I’m going to show yo…
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Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
Exploring how to use 2D graphics in various desktop operating systems, the old-school way. In this part we learn how to create an empty window under Linux, macOS and Windows.
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Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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It’s 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?
Ed25519 signature validation criteria vary widely between implementations, creating risks for consensus systems. Here's why and how to fix it.
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SIMD in Rust
An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.
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Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.
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