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New(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
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A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
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Sorry, Wrong Number: Debugging a Crash Under Wine
A blog about software.
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-h –Help -help Help –? –?
-h --help -help help --? -? ????
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Node.js packages don't deserve trust
Another week, another npm supply chain attack . Yikes! People on hacker news are wringing their hands about what should be done. The problem seems dire.
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A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery
It was a calm day on the puppy-linux thinkpad. The CPU was cool, the RAM was operating at double data rate, and a gentle breeze flowed through the chassis as the fan whirred away. A girl wanted to log onto Discord to chat with her friends, but much to her dismay, Discord needed a package update! No matter, such things…
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What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust
A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits
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What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)
I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions around what the unsafe keyword means for the utility and validity of Rust and its marketing as a “safe systems language”. The truth is a lot more complicated than a single pithy tweet can possibly sum up, unfortunately; here it is as I see it.
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A basic introduction to NumPy's einsum
Haphazard investigations
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The underwhelming impact of software engineering research
This article was prompted by responses to a tweet I wrote in response to an analysis of the research area of papers submitted to the 2022 ICSE conference, the flagship conference for software engineering research. These led me to reflect on software engineering research in general. I’m sorry to say that I think that…
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Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
I am on a number of different compiler mailing lists. One of those is the mailing list for the Tiny C Compiler . Imagine my surprise when a recent email mentioned our latest series and suggested trying a similar approach to improve the code generator in TCC. I was interested to see if there were any low-hanging fruit…
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The Tower of Weakenings: Memory Models for Everyone
In my previous article I looked at the ways that Rust could be better at pointers. Half of the problems were fundamental issues that affect basically every programming language that lets you mess with pointers directly, and the other half were rust-specific issues. My article also proposed two solutions: for the…
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What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
Learn what's new in Emacs 28.1
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Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq
It’s hard for me to believe these words but I pushed Sidekiq’s first commit on Jan 16th, 2012. Ten years ago. The public announcement. One month later. One quarter later. Some context for those new to this blog: Sidekiq is the most popular background job system for the Ruby programming language. Every application has…
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Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game
It's a wise saying, because we game developers have so much fun making the underlying foundations, that we never get around to adding the actual gameplay.
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Cython is 20
Cython celebrates its 20th anniversary
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A project with a single 11,000-line code file
I was responsible for a critical software project written by non-programmers a decade ago.
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Rethinking Visual Programming with Go
This is a blog version of the talk I gave at GopherCon Europe 2019 (Canary Islands Edition) , where I shared my thoughts on why Visual Programming Languages have failed and revealed for the first time my experiment on visualizing Go code.
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Book Review: The Programmer's Brain
There are some books which make you feel smarter just by having them on your shelf. This is one of them! I would consider it essential for anyone working with code - whether a wide-eyed newbie or grizzled veteran. How do human brains understand code? What neurological quirks do we all have? Which common mistakes can…
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GNU ed ate my homework
If you have ever ventured into the archives of old UNIX books and mailing lists, you will have undoubtedly come across the legend of ed. ed (pronounced /iː …
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Horrible edge cases when dealing with music
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Battleship
Let’s overengineer a childhood game.
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Tools for visualizing a codebase
Need to write a README, but running blank on words? If that bothers you frequently, consider generating diagrams.
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Faster Sorting with Go Generics
Recently, a new set of sorting functions has landed in Go's golang.org/x/exp/slices package [1] . These functions leverage Go generics to provide a more ergonomic API for sorting (without requiring users to implement sort.Interface ), and also deliver a nice performance improvement, as the CL demonstrates.