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Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
4NF presented in a straightforward way, with some investigation of history of teaching 4NF.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
2312
Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Over the past 6 years or so, I’ve failed each item on “The Turkey Test.” It’s very simple: will your code work properly on a person’s machine in or around th...
2313
Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
I couldn't remember every UUID so I wrote them all down
2314
Sensible SQLite Defaults
SQLite is cool now. DHH uses it, Laravel defaults to it. Here is a list of _sensible defaults_ when using sqlite.
2315
The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
2316
I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly
This is my story about an adventure into online teaching, video course making, and choosing a hard-to-reach audience, who desperately needs help.
2317
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
7 databases to explore in 2025.
2318
Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama
K/V context cache quantisation has been added to Ollama. This enables significant reductions in VRAM usage, allowing users to realise the potential of expanded context sizes and run larger models at their existing context sizes.
2319
Native dual-range input
Two native range inputs and fifty lines of JavaScript to make them work together.
2320
Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
There is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python. The repo author, @BenjDicken, created a fun visualization of each language’s performance. Here’s one of the visualizations, which shows Ruby as the third slowest…
2321
Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
After getting to work on some personal projects using Go+HTMX+Templ this year, I have decided to give up on using React on any personal projects. You can actually find a lot of compelling arguments for ditching React in favor of HTMX in the essays found in the HTMX official website. But I feel that not that many…
2322
A simple way to scale pixel art games
Previously in How to present MS-DOS screenshots , I encouraged readers to take the original pixel aspect ratio into account when showing pictures of old games. There’s also a subtler issue to consider: the blur analog display systems had.
2323
Distributed Erlang
I'm a two hit wonder
2324
8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
2325
Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Demystifying Git Submodules
Demystifying git submodules by showing exactly how they work.
2328
Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler
2329
Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code
How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!
2330
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.
2331
Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system
New database library for Rust
2332
If not React, then what?
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
2333
Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (or without) Rayon
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to use the rayon framework in Rust to automatically parallelize a loop computation across multiple CPU cores.Disappointingly, my benchmarks showed that this only provided a 2x speedup for my workload, on a computer with 8 CPU threads.Worse, the total “user” and “system” times…
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Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo
I just finished reading the paper Borrow checking Hylo . It outlines the basic design of Hylo . Hylo is an early-stage programming language, but unlike other contenders of C++, it provides memory safety like rust. Specifically it merges rust’s borrow checking ideas into the framework of moveable value semantics (MVS)…
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Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
UPDATE MARCH 2025: This post, and the template attached, were written for Typst v 0.11 – Typst has upgraded twice since then, and this template will not work with the newer versions of Typst. Please see the new post (Mar 26, 2025) at A New Typst Template for Pandoc
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How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?
Please refer to How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? - Take 2 to check the latest result.
2338
Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
Practical accounting for fintech engineers, and also how not to repeat my silly mistakes.
2339
The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
Reflecting on my most successful open source project.
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Accidentally writing a SAT solver
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null