The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
In this post I’m going to do a silly, but interesting, exercise that should never be done in any program that actually matters. I’m going write a program that changes one of its function definitions while it’s actively running and using that function. Unlike last time , this won’t involve shared libraries, but it will…
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well ...
Occasional writings about Haskell.
Bootstrap 4 and Foundation 6 are the latest versions of the most widely used CSS frameworks out there. Foundation 6 is stable whereas Bootstrap 4 hasn’t been released yet. However, before you wonder why I am comparing a stable framework version vs an alpha one, let me set the record straight by saying that Bootstrap 4…
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Thread pools! How do I use them?
Interview with Matt Might, a professor, programming languages researcher, investigator of rare disease, and popular blogger.
ASDF , the de facto standard build system for Common Lisp, has been vastly improved between 2009 and 2014. These and other improvements finally bring Common Lisp up to par with "scripting languages" in terms of ease of writing and deploying portable code that can access and "glue" together functionality from the…
In light of recent events in the javascript community, I would like to share the story of how I came into control of more than 200 heavily…
Moving a big software project to a new compiler can be a lot of work, and few projects are bigger than Chromium. In addition to the main Chromium repository, which includes all of Blink, there are …
This article provides an overview of the test suites that are used by LLVM project to maintain a quality of its libraries and tools on a high level.
We deconstruct JSX to create a new general purpose programming tool.
I love regular expressions. No, I’m not sure you understand: I really love regular expressions. You may find it a little odd that a hack who grew up using a language with the ain’t keyword would fall so head over heels in love with something as obtuse and
<p><strong>EDIT : User @nj48 appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712673227630313472">have no malicious intentions</a>.</strong></p>
For the past few years I’ve followed the evolution of Rust with interest. Rust is a new systems programming language (like C or C++) with greater emphasis on...
I just came across an interesting post via Hacker News , from an author of several hundred NPM packages (some of which quite popular) that just removed all of his packages from NPM.
Tero Parviainen
Another notch on the wall as we've reached the esteemed age of 18 years in the cURL project. 9 releases were shipped since our last birthday and we managed to fix no less than a total of 457 bugs in that time. On this single day in history... 20,000 persons will be visiting the web … Continue reading curl is 18 years…
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
Let's start with the punchline. Your bash scripts will be more robust, reliable and maintainable if you start them like this:
