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The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,543 posts.
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K Language (2011)
Forthcoming events See all events... News Administration Files Buyer Profile Jobs Tenure Procedures Attestation Documents To the Prize page Please donate BIC: UNCRBGSF IBAN: BG32UNCR76303100117336 Address: Institute of Mathematics and
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Thinking Psycopg3
Sponsoring this project will help achieve swift completion and ensure the maintenance of psycopg2, psycopg3 and other related projects.
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Write a rapid prototype first (2007)
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. (John Ousterhout) Discovering a solution to a mathematical problem is only half of the battle. Ac…
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How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it's not uncommon for my blog to get an order of…
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The social side of science seen in the research on programming language quality
I love science. Not the “space is beautiful” faux-science, but the process of doing science. Hours spent calibrating equipment, cross-checking cites of cites of cites, tedious arguments about p-values and prediction intervals, all the stuff that makes science Go. And, when it does happen, the drama. I also want us to…
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How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript
Months ago, when I heard that the legendary JS1k game jam would not be continuing, I talked it over with some other devs and decided to help fill the void we would host a 2k game jam on itch called…
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How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app
Many years ago, I built what I believe was the best-selling BlackBerry app of all-time, BBSmart Email Viewer. It feels strange to write that, and it's not something I'd say I'm really known for outside of the small niche community of BlackBerry app developers that used to exist. But of course this had a huge impact on…
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Data-Oriented Architecture
An in-depth look at Data-Oriented Architecture (DOA): monolithic data stores vs microservices, scaling benefits, and real-world case studies.
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The Octo-Bouncer
I started thinking about ball juggling machines in the year 2014. I wrote about my first few attempts at creating them in this blog post from the year 2017. In 2018 I wrote another post about my then newest build. We’re now in the year 2020. And finally, the quest to get a machine to … Continue reading The Octo-Bouncer
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Why I often implement things from scratch (2006)
Once upon a time there was an Erlang programmer who needed an FTP server running on one of the hosts in a private network. In fact he didn't...
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How to make a web app work offline
Service workers, caches, IndexedDB and PWA.
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On the shoulders of the giants
Hands-on technical leader, Rust expert.
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Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
I have been curious about data compression and the Zip file format in particular for a long time. At some point I decided to address that by learning how it works and writing my own Zip program. The implementation turned into an exciting programming exercise; there is great pleasure to be had from creating a well…
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Stages of denial in encountering K
It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps you were idly browsing your favorite news aggregator, or visiting The Orange Website to wade through murky startup groupthink in search of interesting links.
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Hacking up your own shell completion
In this post I’ll be walking through a simple hack I added to my shell that I think makes me more productive (if nothing else it makes me happy).
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A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git branching model”
In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing version-based software.
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Implementing Raft, Part 3: Persistence and Optimizations
This is Part 3 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a list of posts in the series:
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Please stop recommending Gitflow
Git-flow is a branching and merging methodology popularized by this blog post, entitled “A Successful Git branching model”. In the last ten years, countless teams have been snookered by…
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Hundred Year Mistakes
My manager and I got off on a tangent in our most recent one-on-one on the subject of the durability of design mistakes in programming languages. A particular favourite of mine is the worst of the …
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Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
This post will give you a quick intro to the basics of GUI programming for SerenityOS.
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How did software get so reliable without proof?
In 1996, the Turing-award-winning computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare wrote a paper with the title How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? In this paper, Hoare grapples with the observation tha…
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The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present
My hobby : opening up McIlroy’s UNIX philosophy on one monitor while reading manpages on the other.
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
The Maersk Triple-E Class container ship is 1,300 feet long, carries over 18,000 containers across 11,000 miles between Europe and Asia, and… Its entire crew can fit inside a passenger van. As a former naval architect and a current marketing consultant to startups, I found that