5041
Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
When exposing large data sets through APIs, it needs to provide a mechanism to paginate the list of resources. There are multiple…
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
5042
Code quality only matters in context (2019)
I used to obsess about code quality earlier in my career. My experience indicates that I'm in good company here; a lot of us developers spend so much time growing our programming skills, and that kind of drive comes from intrinsic motivation. We care about what we do, and we want to do it well.
5043
Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
5044
Architecture Notes: Datasette
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
5045
How I Built Zig-SQLite
Article explaining how to leverage Zig's compile time metaprogramming to build a SQLite wrapper that can type check SQL queries
5046
Why, oh why was this added?
In this post, I take you on a debugging journey and show you why it might be a good idea to add a comment next to a certain method.
5047
What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)
As part of my job I spend quite a lot of time scanning through files and disk contents, often in hex or filtered text view, searching for sp...
5048
Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simple image filters
Left: Original image. Center: Blurred through convolution. Right: Deconvolution of the blurred image. In this post, we’ll have a look at the idea of removing blur from images, videos, or games thro…
5049
Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX-512
Many recent Intel processors benefit from a new family of instructions called AVX-512. These instructions operate over wide registers (up to 512 bits) and follow the Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) paradigm. These new AVX-512 instructions allow you to break some speed records, such as decoding base64 data at…
5050
Making macOS Behave Itself
Wherein the Means to Make macOS Behave Itself Are Enumerated, Including an App to Stop Music.app Launching on Device Connection, Terminal Tips for Gatekeeper, OCR From Screen, and Time Machine Control.
5051
Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look at their security, after the do-or-die focus on product market…
5052
SwiftUI in 2022
Even if you already know a bit (or a lot) of SwiftUI, Stanford’s course is incredible, amazing, wonderful, AND FREE!
5053
Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager
Becoming a project manager after being a software developer for many years changed me quite a bit. Below are my thoughts and breakdown of the experience.
5054
5055
Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep
I’ve been working on some long-needed updates to Videogrep , my command-line tool that automatically generates supercuts. These updates were motivated in part by a 10 week class I recently developed and taught at the School for Poetic Computation called Scrapism (web-scraping-as-art). The class includes a section on…
5056
Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
Recently, I came across a few old and new interviews of Donald Knuth (sources: (i) Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth , (ii) Interviews conducted by Lex Fridman Part 1 and Part 2 ), where he sheds light on his work habits, how he approaches problems, and his philosophy towards happiness. I really enjoyed reading…
5057
5058
How Uber Uses Zig
I talked at the first Zig meetup in Milan about Uber's early experience with Zig: a little about how Uber uses Zig and more about my experience of bringing Zig to Uber, from both technical and social aspects.
5059
Useful Python decorators for data scientists
I show toy implementations of Python decorator patterns that may be useful for Data Scientists.
5060
What’s in Which Python
A concise summary of Python’s versions, and what’s in each.
5061
Useless Use of "dd" (2015)
tl;dr: dd works for reading and writing disks, but it has no "low level I/O" capabilities that make it more suited for this than any other shell utility. Like cat you should use it where it makes sense, e.g. to take advantage of its wide array of options, rather than try to ensure that all disk related commands begin…
5062
5063
“What if it changes?”
How and why to use the second most powerful question known to software development
5064
Programming with Nothing
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
5065
Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer
Wishing Compiler Explorer a very happy tenth birthday
5066
5067
How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder
Veja o post original em português em How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder. How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder One of the things that looks like magic is the search for m…
5068
The balance has shifted away from SPAs
There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago. Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are…
5069
The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose
... in which we look at one or two ways to make life easier when working with Python regular expressions.
5070
Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
It’s an exciting time in the Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast community – that was a joke, there is no enthusiast community, it’s just me! 😆