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HTML whitespace is broken (2024)
A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models
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The inevitability of the borrow checker
When defining a type in Inko , it's allocated on the heap by default. For example (using the syntax for the upcoming 0.18.0 release):
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Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
April 30, 2024. I decided to dedicate a week to migrate our main project at work (a multiplayer mobile game server in production for over 4 years) from Scala...
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Simulating water over terrain
If you don't want a long an boring introduction, skip directly to the virtual pipes method description . I will get a little bit sad if you do this, though x)
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Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Introduction I created a Game Boy emulator in Ruby and released it as a gem called rubyboy! (I’d be happy if you could give it a star!) And now it runs in the browser using WebAssembly! Try the demo in your browser! Screenshots Rubyでゲームボーイのエミュレータを作りました！ カラー対応やWasmでブラウザ対応もやっていきたい💪 GitHub: https://t.co/hFwmZD6FNp…
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Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty
An interactive guide on making animations on the GPU
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Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
Hello there! If you follow tech news, you might have heard about the Okta security incident that was reported on 1st of November. The TLDR of the incident was …
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The Sudoku Affair
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
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You're missing your near misses
FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: the greater the impact to the organizat…
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Software development topics I've changed my mind on
Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade
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Go Data Structures: Interfaces (2009)
Go's interfaces—static, checked at compile time, dynamic when asked for—are, for me, the most exciting part of Go from a language design point of view. If I could export one feature of Go into other languages, it would be interfaces.
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Go Data Structures (2009)
When explaining Go to new programmers, I've found that it often helps to explain what Go values look like in memory, to build the right intuition about which operations are expensive and which are not. This post is about basic types, structs, arrays, and slices.
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I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993
History of the development of my Pascal compiler for transputer when I was age 13.
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Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns
Jujutsu (jj), a new version control system written in Rust, has popped up on my radar a few times over the past year. Looked interesting based on a cursory look, but being actually pretty satisfied with Git, and not having major problems with it, I haven’t checked it out. That is, until last week, when I finally…
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Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
As we saw in the opening post, SQLite stores metadata about tables in a special "schema table" starting on page 1. We've been reading records from this…
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No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming
Can Rust replace C? This is a question that has been on my mind for many years,as I created and now am tech lead forupb, a C libraryfor Protocol Buffers. Th...
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Developer Philosophy
Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the world. A few weeks ago at work we had a talk where senior developers (including me) were invited to spend around five minutes each talking about our personal software development philosophies....
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Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format
imessage-exporter ’s goal is to provide the most comprehensive representation of iMessage data available. Message data is stored in a legacy format that appears to be a stream that represents objects.
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Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
Spend enough time looking at Python programs and packages for machine learning, and you'll notice that the "JIT decorator" pattern is pretty popular. For example, this JAX snippet:
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I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
For the last 6 months, I’ve been spending my (limited) free time on evenings and weekends writing a WebAssembly VM in C. After repeatedly throwing away small side-projects, this was an extremely productive experience for me as an engineer. I’m writing this in order to put together some take-aways and organize my…
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Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library
The other day, while wasting time reading reddit, I stumbled upon a blogpost mentioning S3 FIFO, a method claiming to outperform LRU (Least Recently Used) in terms of cache miss ratio. Notable companies like RedPandas, Rising Wave, and Cloudflare have already implemented it in various capacities, so this piqued my…
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Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars
Left & Mutual Recursion Mitigation
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Tools for 2025
TLDR; I really wish these tools gain more traction:
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Python 3, Pygame, and Debian Bookworm on the Miyoo A30
What if I told you you can get a full Linux computer with WiFi and a GPU in a small, pocket form factor for about $30 USD on AliExpress ? You might say “but what about the new tariffs?” and I’d say “oof, oh right, okay who knows, but it’s probably still pretty cheap!” (Edit: looks like you can get one for about $40…
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Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code
Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inhe…
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Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers
Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to the proliferation of bugs and vulnerabilities. This article…
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Sparrow, a modern C++ implementation of the Apache Arrow columnar format
A Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format
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Mini-R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 "Aha Moment"
Reproduce Deepseek R1 „aha moment“ and train an open model using reinforcement learning trying to teach it self-verification and search abilities all on its own to solve the Countdown Game.