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Building Good Docker Images
The docker registry is bursting at the seams. At the time of this writing, a search for “node” gets just under 1000 hits. How does one choose?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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Sacrificial Architecture
Sometimes it's a good thing to be writing code that you expect to throw away in a couple of years time.
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Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe
A drop-in Rails engine for accepting credit card payments with Stripe
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Your language sucks
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos , I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in li...
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On Error Handling in Rust
My thoughts about error handling in APIs after writing a Redis library in Rust.
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What’s New in Emacs 24.4
Discover what's new in Emacs 24.4 as I annotate most of the changes made to the new Emacs version.
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We need tool support for keyset pagination
Pagination without OFFSET has many benefits but one problem: there is no tool support. Please help changing this.
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The problematic culture of “Worse is Better”
Our industry has been infected by a dangerous meme, and it’s one that hasn’t been given its proper scrutiny. Like many memes that explode in popularity, “Worse is Better” gave a name to an underlying fragment of culture or philosophy that had been incubating for some time. I point to C++ as one of the first instances…
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Why threads can't fork
There is an interesting thread on the Go issue tracker about daemonizing processes. Most of the thread is not about daemonizing processes though, but more about why Go has no Fork() function which you can call directly in your code. The first time I read through it I was wondering and saying to myself: “Yeah, why is…
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Why your first Rust FizzBuzz implementation may not work
An exploration into some initially surprising but great parts of Rust (though you still may not like them).
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Building a F1 race simulator
One of the most fascinating aspects of modern Formula 1 is the use of computer simulations to predict car performances and race strategies. By the early 1990s, teams like Benetton had begun to deve…
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Move Fast, Don't Break Your API
Amber on Rails
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Rich Command Shells
Many applications benefit from a mix of a graphical and textual interface. This has ranged from entire environments, like the Lisp Machine and the follow-on Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM), to specific applications like Mathematica and others which employ a "notebook interface". There have also been various…
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Running GUI apps with Docker
I've been doing all of my real (paid) work on VMs / containers for a while now but when it comes to writing Java code...
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Talking about “types”
My essay “In Search of Types” attempts to be a dispassionate review of some of the different concepts, purposes and attitudes surrounding the word “type” in programming. I imagine that my passions are still rather thinly veiled in places. But in this post I'm going to come out with a more unabashedly ranty take…
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Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end
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Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server
When learning a new programming language, I tend to write two things with it: a language interpreter (usually a FORTH-like language or Brainfuck if I'm feeling lazy), and a HTTP server. Sometimes, just as a challenge or a way to quench my boredom, I do this even though I've been working with a particular language for…
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History of Apache Storm and Lessons Learned
Apache Storm recently became a top-level project , marking a huge milestone for the project and fo...
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Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Magic CmdLine and how I got it back
What am I running inside my bash?
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Bye Bye JavaScript Promises
In my previous post , I explored how programming with promises can be made close to programming with values. After some more work on it, and some learning from bluebird , I came to conclude that my brain doesn’t think well with promises. So I wrote a macro for Javascript that expands “tasks” into async state machines…
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Beyond Light Table
I have three big announcements to make today. The first is the official announcement of our next project. We’ve been quietly talking about it over the past few months, but today we want to tell you a bit more about it and finally reveal its name:
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A Fresh Look at Rust
An updated report on my experience with Rust and where I think it might be going.
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Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU
This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible…
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Building OS X Apps with JavaScript
OS X Yosemite introduced JavaScript for Automation. This makes it possible to build native OS X apps using good ol’ JS. This article covers the basics and walks through building an example app.