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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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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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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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How to run C programs on the BeagleBone's PRU microcontroller
This article describes how to write C programs for the BeagleBone's microcontrollers. The BeagleBone Black is an inexpensive, credit-card...
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Laws of Performant Software
Learning how to write performant code is hard. Here are a few simple laws that I hope will convey the core of the matter. I’m calling them…
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Is your JavaScript function actually pure?
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You Might Not Need Redux
People often choose Redux before they need it. “What if our app doesn’t scale without it?” Later, developers frown at the indirection Redux…
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My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Why I Don't Use React Router
Tech blog of topics that interest me - frontend development, functional programming, user experience, building cool things
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Switching Costs in Software Development
The story of why it is important to make sure that it is easy to switch from one service to another.
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If your code accepts URIs as input, filter out “file://”
There are many online sites that accept reading input from remote locations. For example a site might try to extract all the text from a webpage, or show you the HTTP-headers a given server sends back in response to a request.
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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015)
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.” — Steve Yegge There you have it. Think about it. It doesn’t really matter …
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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not al…
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Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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How to Write a Spelling Corrector
I figured they, and others, could benefit from an explanation. The full details of an industrial-strength spell corrector are quite complex (you can read a little about it here or here ). But I figured that in the course of a transcontinental plane ride I could write and explain a toy spelling corrector that achieves…
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Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime
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Linux debugging tools you'll love
New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love
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The new and improved Programming Languages Zoo
It is my pleasure to announce the new and improved Programming languages Zoo , a potpourri of miniature but fully functioning programming language implementations. The new zoo has a decent web site, it is now hosted on GitHub , and the source code was cleaned up. Many thanks to Matija Pretnar for all the work.