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A practical guide to reducing loneliness
11 easy, dorky, & life-affirming ways to connect to others — according to an introvert.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
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Red and blue functions are a good thing
By avoiding effect aware functions a language hobbles engineers and makes programs sloppier than they could be.
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API versioning has no “right way” (2017)
API versioning is a really difficult topic, and sometimes seen as a merely religious debate. It’s done differently at different companies, and different teams within different companies often vary. Some folks move from approach A to approach B, and when approach B solves their specific issues they act like
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2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Thanks to some clever people I was able to get a CAD model of the current 2021 Williams F1 car — that’s not something that happens every day, so of course I had to run CFD on it. CAD Ge…
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The Tamagotchi Cemetery
In 1996, Japanese toy designers Aki Maita and Yokoi Akihiro debuted the first ever Tamagotchi.
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Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags
In this post I want to explain a new deployment method I came up with while working on drwn.io. I wanted it to meet a few requirements: Simple Based on git tags Zero-downtime Easy rollbacks Creating …
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A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019)
A Product Engineer’s Guide to Working with Platform Engineers
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Swift on the Server (2020)
Why choose Swift as a backend language in 2020? What are the available frameworks to build your server? Let me guide you.
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Has UML died without anyone noticing?
Stuck with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect? Time to upgrade to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation
The European Commission just released their Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence . They finally get around to a definition of “AI” on page 60 of the report (link above):
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The joys of creating Xcode project files
Meson's Xcode backend was originally written in 2014 or so and was never complete or even sufficiently good for daily use. The main reason f...
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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
[Note: there have been several developments in this space since thisarticle was published. See A Tail Calling Interpreter For Python (And Other Updates) for...
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Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (2018)
In this article I’m trying to explain the difference/similarities between dynamic programing and divide and conquer approaches based on two examples - binary search and minimum edit distance (Levenshtein distance)
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Let's stop building APIs around a network hack (2017)
JSON-API has been one of the most popular standards for API development for a while now. It was conceived in 2013, battled through some rather different RC versions (changing drastically as it went), finally stabilizing with v1.0 back in mid-2015. My interest in JSON-API has changed
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Why do drum sets have descending toms?
Before mic’ing became a necessity, acoustic drums were just that: acoustic. And when they needed to be louder, drum manufacturers made them bigger and longer. That led to some diameter and de…
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Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility
Introduction to `lmgrep`: what is it and what it isn't. My a motivation to build it.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
Trying out this newsletter thing... It's sort of astonishing to think about how much value I've gotten from Twitter over the last few years. At its best, my...
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Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
この記事は日本語でも投稿されています: https://blog.ryotak.net/post/homebrew-security-incident/ (もし日本語が読める場合、筆者は英語がそこまで得意ではないため、日本語の記事を読むことをお勧めします。) (Official blog post about this incident is available here: https://brew.sh/2021/04/21/security-incident-disclosure/) Preface Homebrew project is running a “Vulnerability Disclosure Program”…
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Get better at Googling
10 Google search operators every developer should know: exact-match quotes, OR, minus, wildcards, site:, filetype:, number ranges, before: and after:.
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Some useful regular expressions for programmers
In my blog post, My programming setup, I stressed how important regular expressions are to my programming activities. Regular expressions can look intimidating and outright ugly. However, they should not be underestimated. Someone asked for examples of regular expressions that I rely upon. Here a few. It is commonly…
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Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)
Blockchains for everything Decentralized storage services such as Filecoin and StorJ seek to disrupt the data-storage industry, using blockchain tokens to create a competitive marketplace that can …
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Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.
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Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop
In a previous article, I discussed my intention of Building an E-Ink Laptop . In this article, I want to introduce EI2030 and how we are building an open-source eink laptop and its challenges.
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