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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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The Verge editor secretly joins Apple, doesn't inform the Verge
Link to: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13036012/a-note-from-the-editor-in-chief-about-chris-ziegler
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I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not declining
“The decline of Stackoverflow” is now trending on reddit, and I started this post as a comment in the thread, but it got too long. I’m in the 0.01% (whichContinue reading
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Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js (2015)
Please consider reviewing this guide on Amazon, if you’ll find it helpful. Few months ago, I had to debug a memory leak in Node.js. I found a good number of articles dedicated to the subject…
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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Software Development at 1 Hz
People keep saying that a one line source code change should take one second to be “effective”. “Effective” meaning that you get some form…
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Two years spent spamming spammers back
I created a bot to respond to these types of emails…
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The Democratization of Censorship
John Gilmore , an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech.
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A Letter to the Berlin Startup Scene
Dear Berlin Startup Scene,
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My love-hate relationship with LuaJIT (2015)
I love LuaJIT for its performance, but its complexity sometimes puts me off.
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So You Want to Be a Hero?
Rule #1 is “The Player Must have Fun.” It’s trivially easy for a game designer to “defeat” players. We have all the tools and all the power. The trick is to play on the same side as the players, to tell the story together, and to make them the stars.
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The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery
physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
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August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem
The August 2016 Lisp Game Jam just wrapped up at the end of last week. I had some free time so I decided to take part, but I did something a bit different. Instead of making a new game I ported an existing one ( Silt ) to Common Lisp.
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Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep , that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for Linux, Mac and Windows) and written in Rust .
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Confessions of a Necromancer
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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Upgrade your SSH keys
Upgrade to faster and more secure SSH keys. I promise a smooth transition to the use of your new keys.
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Using Gmail with Mutt
A tutorial on using gmail with mutt, a console-based email client, along with some advanced concepts such as encrypting your account password and sending emails from a different <code>From</code> address.
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I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.
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What does a kilowatt hour look like?
Some time ago I came across a very good read by David McCay - Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air. I’ve seen many good reviews of the book, so it didn’t t...
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The MIT License, Line by Line
171 words every programmer should understand
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Oracle’s Cloudy Future
Larry Ellison has declared that Oracle is a cloud company, but their customer offering seems more suited to the world that was.
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Where will the next major advance towards general purpose AI come from?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making progress in great strides, or at least it appears so! Almost no week passes by without some major announcements of new challenges solved by AI technology or new products powered by AI. Indeed many quantifiable factors attest an unprecedented level of activity: capital…
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My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter
In online forums, I often see questions from people new to C++ asking for recommended reading. I usually respond with a certain set of trusted books, with the caveat that no amount of reading makes up for practice: you have to actually work on something. But what would be a good project to work on? Something that…
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LL and LR Parsing Demystified (2013)
My first adventures in parsing theory came when I was doing anindependent study of programming languages in college. When I got tothe part about algorithms s...
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What every coder should know about gamma
Personal blog of John Novak