2011
A day using money in Cuba
Cuba is a puzzling country, especially when it comes to money. It is the only country in the world with a dual currency system.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
2012
2013
Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog
Writing a solver for “Miracle Sudoku” puzzles in Prolog.
2014
Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)
A “ quine ” (or “ selfrep ”) is a computer program which prints its own listing. This may sound either impossible, or trivial, or completely uninteresting, depending on your temper and your knowledge of computer science. Actually, it is possible, and there are some interesting ideas involved (in particular, writing a…
2015
2016
Beyond Remote
On Monday, Twitter and Square announced they were going remote-first as a company. Three days later Facebook and Shopify had similar announcements. Since then, Twitter and every one of my group chats have been lit up with discussions on what the implications of these changes will be on the future of work. I've been…
2017
Software will eat software in a remote-first world
Is that a good thing?
2018
A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers
Threat modeling is a risk based approach to cyber security requirements analysis.
2019
Implementing simple cooperative threads in C
Using setjmp(), longjmp(), and assembly to implement a simple threading system in C!
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2023
Self Supervised Learning in NLP
An overview of self-supervised pretext tasks in Natural Language Processing
2024
Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet in another month or six weeks.
2025
Mocking time and testing event loops in Go
Initially I wanted to write articles on those two topics separately (mocking time and testing event loops), but during the process I realized that the things I want to talk about are too interrelated: when I need to mock time, it's usually to test some event loop with it, and when I test event loops, typically mocked…
2026
W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows
As a computer engineer, my job is to use computers to solve important problems. Ideally my solutions will be efficient, and typically that means making the best use of the resources at hand. Quite often these resources are machines running Windows and, despite my misgivings about the platform, there is much to be…
2027
Don’t Be Afraid of RAID
I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large.
2028
Habits of High-Functioning Teams
I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all kinds of guidelines and heuristics about what makes teams work, but in my experience, it’s hard to internalize these…
2029
Immutable Databases
Like blockchain but without blockchain.
2030
2031
Guide to Concurrency in Python with Asyncio
A guide to Python's asyncio module covering async/await, event loops, tasks, and when to use asyncio vs threading or multiprocessing.
2032
Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
NetNewsWire is fast because performance is one of our core values. Being fast is part of the very definition of the app.
2033
2034
Assembly's Perspective of C
If you are living under a rock, quarantined against COVID-19, here’s quite a long, and somewhat technical, post for your consumption. This post will talk about how C and assembly dance together–the tango? waltz? who knows?
2035
My 2020 desk setup
I generally enjoy reading the uses this blog, and recently people have been talking about desk setups in my bubble (and on my Twitch stream), so I figured I’d write a post about my current setup!
2036
How to write a programming book
Aquiles Carattino helps technical founders and scientists transition from academia to entrepreneurship. Actionable advice on deep tech strategy, product management, and commercializing science.
2037
Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables
This is a follow-up to Allan Odgaard's excellent article macOS 10.15: Slow by Design . I want to talk specifically about the first section "Spawning a new Process", because there has been widespread misunderstanding of this. Odgaard provides a simple test to show that the first run of an executable is delayed while…
2038
2039
Peer Review
This blog is not peer reviewed at all. I write it, I put it out there, and people read it or not. It is my little megaphone that I alone control.
2040
Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2
Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2. I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics. There’s no reason I should go down alone.