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Docker's Second Death
I do enterprise cloud stuff at Google, also at k8sfiles.com. Words are my own.
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Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)
My thoughts on why programming hasn’t changed that much and where the next generation of improvements will come
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Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience
Background: Joystick Preventing Display Sleep A few months ago, I thought I ought to try Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The facsimile of o...
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Between two Lisps
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
This blog post uses MathJax to render mathematics. You need JavaScript enabled for MathJax to work.
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,
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QBE vs. LLVM
Both QBE and LLVM are compiler backends using an SSA representation. This document will explain why LLVM does not make QBE a redundant project. Obviously, everything following is biased, because written by me.
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ARM and Lock-Free Programming
I was inspired by the release of Apple’s M1 ARM processor to tweet about the perils of lock-free programming which led to some robust discussion. The discussion went pretty well given the inanity o…
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
I'll try to leave the pulp in here and keep this as chronological as I can. In that spirit, no tweets were harmed in the making of this post.
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No Config for Old Men
Ask anyone who's really into cooking and they'll tell you how important it is to have a kitchen that's arranged just right. To someone who rarely cooks, a kitchen is probably just a place to store a few pots and a toaster, and the placement of such stuff doesn't matter much: canned soup and microwave dinners are…
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Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
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Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)
This is a follow-up post to “Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1” , continuing the journey of exploring Docker on Apple’s new M1 machines.
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1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
What's the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby? It's 1.5 for some reason. What's the reason you might ask? Read on to find out.
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The Code It Yourself Manifesto (2016)
We use software for our everyday needs because we want to get something done. We have goals to achieve and things to do.
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Parse, don’t type-check
There’s a fantastic article from last year titled Parse, don’t validate. I’d highly recommend it to any programmer (along with the more recent follow up Names are not type safety). The basic idea i…
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Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
There’s something really quite subtle about how the nproc utility from GNU coreutils works. If you look at the man page, it’s even the very first sentence: Print the number of processin…
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An API is a user interface
An API is a user interface for programmers, and is no different from a graphical user interface, command-line user interface, or any other interface a human is expected to work with. Turns out programmers are people – who would have thought?
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Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core
I've long said, as a fan of the console and text mode, that the command line is ...
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A Month of Terraform
I took Heroku for granted, and a month into setting up my own infra, I now know how much it bought me.
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Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1
I can build this. — every developer at least once