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Serialization Is the Secret
If a value mutates in the forest with no one to see it, does it really mutate?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
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Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
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Notes on the Crystal Language
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill
All you need to know about the latest Python release including Global Interpreter Lock and Just-in-Time compilation.
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Rewriting Rust: A Response
Joseph Gentle wrote a post on how he wants Rust to change. I am already working on that.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
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Rewriting Rust
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we
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Why I still blog after 15 years
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
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Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
One of the all-time great XKCDs. It's amazing that "check whether the photo is of a bird" has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, …
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Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
I was toying around with a refactor the other day that would have taken me ages by hand as it involved 100s of files. I wanted to rename every instance of...
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Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr . To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs. One of such features is panicking and unwinding.
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Compiling to Assembly from Scratch
Then come along! Let’s make a compiler that goes all the way from source to assembly from scratch—no shortcuts!
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Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.
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I Like Makefiles
Fancy new build tools come and go, but I think I will stick with using makefiles to orchestrate everyday tasks in my projects.
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Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations
Use the parallel processing power of your GPU to simulate a simple chemical system that exhibits emergent behaviors
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Reactive Relational Algebra
databases plus wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff
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Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
Reproducible builds configured in Lua
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Digital signatures and how to avoid them
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a messag…
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A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
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OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
Distributed Tracing is scary and complicated... right?
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GPU Debug Scopes
Using RAII to attach diagnostic information to your command buffers
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Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs
What Is Declarative Programming Broadly speaking, there are two ways to program/instruct a computer to perform a task, they are imperative...
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Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins
I discuss various models of biased bit sequences, and how to extract uniform random (or close to it) output bit sequences from them, illustrated with Python code.
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Fractran: Computer architecture based on the multiplication of fractions
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Dissecting the gzip format (2011)
In this article I describe the DEFLATE algorithm that GZIP implements and depends on. The DEFLATE algorithm uses a combination of LZ77, Huffman codes and run-length-encoding; this article describes each in detail by walking through an example and developing source code to implement the algorithm. My aim is to…
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The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015)
Over the years, I've read a lot of books on software engineering. Agile books in particular like to refute the "Waterfall Model". Every t...
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Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea
Microservices aren't the only way to get high cohesion and low coupling.