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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,470 posts.
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Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
The article discusses how Kotlin can create internal languages and how developers can use this feature to write powerful domain-specific languages for manipulating untyped data structures in a typed manner.
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The .feedback scam
Do you have feedback you'd like to give to Google, Facebook, StackOverflow, Inc., or Gandi? Now there's a website that will collect that feedback. Or... not.
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Denied Entry
- Sorry, you're not allowed entry to the US on your ESTA. The lady who delivered this message to me this early Monday morning, worked behind the check-in counter at the Arlanda airport. I was there, trying to check-in to my two-leg trip to San Francisco to the Mozilla "all hands" meeting of the summer … Continue…
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Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
The machine is now capable of running un-attended for hours on end, which is a huge milestone. No more jamming or other nastiness that causes me to interrupt a run. Many little things contributed to this, I’ve looked at all the mechanics and figured out all the little things that went wrong one by one and have come up…
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The internet as existential threat
Some days I wonder if we are completely screwed. So today’s post is a perhaps slightly hysterical outburst.
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Goodbye Mozilla
Today is effectively my last day at Mozilla, before I start at Impossible on Monday. I’ve been here for 6 years and a bit and it’s been quite an experience. I think it’s worth reflecting on, so here we go; Fair warning, if you have no interest in me or Mozilla, this is going to make pretty boring reading.
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Ends, Means, and Antitrust
Google is a monopoly, and almost certainly a bad actor: shopping, though, is a terrible example that shows how regulators can go wrong.
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An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
A few weeks ago a user on my site, cardgames.io , sent me a message saying that Mark Hamill had just tweeted a photo of himself playing Yahtzee . I looked, and sure enough, there it was:
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Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)
Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie.
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Kill sticky headers (2013)
There is currently a trend for using sticky headers on websites. There's even a sticky header web startup .
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Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack
This guide will walk you through setting up Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack to easily interoperate between low-level Rust code and…
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Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
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Compiling a subset of Python syntax to x86-64 assembly for fun and zero profit
A toy (but working) compiler that turns Python syntax into x86-64 assembly using Python's built-in AST module.
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Growing fibers
wingolog: article: growing fibers
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Learn React with Copywork
Tired of making TODO apps over and over? Try this instead.
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JavaScript Fatigue or My History with Web Development
I’ve only been a full time web developer for the past 5 years. It’s barely enough time to start calling myself a “senior” Software Engineer. In that short period of time the web technology stack has…
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70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization
Looking at data for some of the most popular websites, we repeat ourselves too much in CSS; using declarations just once is often one solid avenue to avoid repetition; together, we need to put more focus on style sheet optimization.
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Why getting traction is so hard these days
The end of the cycle One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications…
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By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
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Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes
Last week I wrote a Mandelbrot set program for the Xerox Alto, which took an hour to generate the fractal. The point of this project was to...