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SELECT wat FROM sql
Thanks to Nikhil Benesch, Justin Jaffray and several decades of "wouldn't it be nice if..." for contributions.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,543 posts.
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Python 2 Is Dead
It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
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Software Development: Mistakes I Made
Recently I revealed the secret of academic success. This was so popular (16000 views!) that I decided I would follow up with the secret of software success – success in producing software. No…
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Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not
Whenever discussing problems with programming today and potential solutions, invariably someone will pop up and declare that the problem is ...
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I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
A blog about computing and other fun.
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Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
An introduction to shell productivity features: autocompletion, keyboard shortcuts, history navigation and shell expansions.
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Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
The following image is a "sneak peek" at the full implementation and the resultant system:
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CSS for Internationalisation
I've come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than…
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Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?
I've been porting the AndroidX collection library to Kotlin multiplatform to experiment with binary compatibility, performance, tooling, and the different memory models. Some of the data structures in the library use array-based binary trees to store elements. The Java code has a lot of shifts to replace power-of-two…
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Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
Compute enormous Fibonacci numbers in milliseconds using this one weird trick
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Two Months with Powershell on a Unix
Software development blog of Joe Wright
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Guitar Chord Voicings with Prolog
Prolog is a language that excels at defining and exploring relationships. Let’s take advantage of that and use Prolog to explore a few of the myriad of relationships that exist between chords and the guitar’s fretboard.
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A possible new back end for Rust
So typically when you want to make your own compiled language you need a compiler to.. well.. compile it into something useful. Then making it work across a wide range of operating systems and CPU architectures is a huge effort, let alone having it be performant. This is where LLVM comes in.
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Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
Bridging the gap between stateful and event sourced sub-systems
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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
JetBrains, the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, offer a range of powerful IDEs for all kinds of programming languages. I would like to share my favorite shortcuts for their IDEs.
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Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
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When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
Update your Bash prompt with the command start time.
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Micro C, Part 3: Generating LLVM
In part 2, we completed the user facing part of the compiler with semantic analysis. Now we're free to focus on the backend, generating LLVM. To do so, we'll use the llvm-hs-pure library, which embeds LLVM into a Haskell ADT, allowing us to manipulate it without having to set up any FFI.|A blog about various…
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Writing Python inside Rust
About a year ago, I published a Rust crate called inline-python, which allows you to easily mix some Python into your Rust code using a python!{ .. } macro. In this series, I’ll go through the process of developing this crate from scratch.
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Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)
Understanding Flask, Celery, and Redis through Mcdonalds
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Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
Sharing my thoughts on userscripts, a phenomenon the swept the internet back in the 00s.
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What Outranks Thread Priority?
This investigation started, as so many of mine do, with me minding my own business, not looking for trouble. In this case all I was doing was opening my laptop lid and trying to log on.The first fe…
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
Over time, a system collects state on its root partition. This state lives in assorted directories like /etc and /var , and represents every under-documented or out-of-order step in bringing up the services.