The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
This week’s paper won the distinguished presentation award at HotOS 2021, and discusses the potential for future innovation in the tool that many use every day - the shell! A previous submission of this paper on Hacker News elicited a number of strong reactions. One reaction was the assertion that there are in fact…
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Lately I’ve been experimenting with Rust, and I want to report some of whatI’ve learned about thread-safety. I am an enthusiastic dabbler in Rust: Ispend mo...
WebAssembly and WASI show great promise for the future of computing outside the browser, and the WebAssembly component model aims to improve the portability, cross-language, and composition story for Wasm. This article explains the goals of the component model, and showcases how to use tooling from the Bytecode…
All the pieces have come together for widespread Wasm SIMD usage. The majority of browsers and Node 16 LTS support Wasm SIMD out of the box, and Rust recently learned how to compile Wasm intrinsics. Now I need to port a library from x86 SIMD to Wasm SIMD and distribute it in such a way that will fallback to a non-SIMD…
I learned to code in the Javascript stack [1] and am building a Javascript based product [2]. I never questioned this stack: many companies default to it, JS everywhere seems good, and the community is big. But for my new side project I decided to try Rails because despite some...
More than 600 new functions in Version 13 plus loads of updates covering: symbolic integration, mathematical functions, PDE modeling, video creation, image stitching, tree constructs, graph coloring, subgraph isomorphism, spatial fields, leap seconds, maps, geometric regions, chemical formulas & reactions, bio…
I’ve been having this thought on the back of my mind for a long time to write about why it’s often a bad idea to start with microservices for a brand new project.
Version 0.9 of the Zig programming language is planned to release in about a week. One of the major changes coming in this release is a restructuring of how allocators work, which has been termed Allocgate . This is a breaking change to the Allocator API provided by the standard library, so pretty much any code that…
A few months ago, I stumbled upon this post where someone spent 9 years making a shed . No knocks on them, but it’s not even a particularly good-looking shed.
New Post: ADTs in TLA+ Using Abstract Data Types in TLA+. It's an adaptation of part of my TLAConf talk. It's also a lot more advanced than most of the...
Reflections on my time at Electronic Arts and techniques used to improve iteration times in video game development
Summary of CVE-2021-4228 (Log4Shell), trivial RCE in log4j, a common Java logging framework. Includes list of affected platforms.
Expressive code in C++
On every team at every company I've been at prior to my current role, the advice was simple: don't check your node_modules folder into your version control system (which I'll refer to as “Git” for the rest of this article…). This seemed like solid advice for multiple reasons:
There is more than enough written on the mechanics of and mitigations for the recent severe RCE in log4j . On prevention, this is the most interesting widely-reshared insight I have seen:
Loris Cro's Blog
Introduction to quaternions and rotations in 3D.
The Modus themes for Emacs meet the highest accessibility standard for colour contrast. This is their official manual.
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed by anybody.
This tutorial is intended for intermediate C developers who want to get some coding practice and, in the process, gain valuable insights into low-level programming and how (some) Virtual Machines operate under the hood. The reader should already be comfortable with bitwise operations, hexadecimal notation, pointers…
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
My exploration into making a 90s style fantasy console inspired by the PS1
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
Easter egg; noun: An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software, included as a joke or a bonus. There are no Easter eggs in curl. For the good. I've been asked about this many times. Among the enthusiast community, people seem to generally like the concept of Easter eggs and hidden treasures, ……
