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Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.2.0. The most significant change since 1.1.0 is that most Homebrew taps (package repositories) in the Homebrew GitHub organisation have been deprecated and the currently buildable software moved into Homebrew/homebrew-core. This will improve the quality and availability of all…
In the bird’s-eye view, one might have the comforting illusion that country borders are also language borders. Especially where the bor...
If you have decided to learn the asynchronous part of Python, here is an “Asyncio”. You will observe some examples and notice our point of view about it.
Recently I came across one of the first pitch letters I sent to journalists about Y Combinator. It was from the first few months of YC’s existence and it’s a snapshot of what our thinking was way...
Blog about VHDL projects for FPGA. FPGA tutorials. FPGA free books.
Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil—the equivalent of a blow from a hammer. These are the findings of a study published in Nature…
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Something important is almost never mentioned in all the literature about programming and software development, and as a result we sometimes misunderstand each other. You’re a software develo…
Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation ch...
Five years ago I wrote a post that got some good attention on why you should use Postgres. Almost a year later I added a bunch of things I missed. Many of those items bear repeating, and I’ll recap a few of those in the latter half of this post. But in the last 4-5 years there’s been a lot of improvements and more…
A month ago I wrote an article called "How I realised “Open Source” is a better term than “Free Software”" . Now I change my mind completely and explain why everything I said was actually wrong.
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Describes the process of building a QNX 7 x86_64 machine from (almost) scratch.
One of my uncles cursed me with the LEGO bug, when I was 6 he gave me his collection because he was going to university. My uncle and I are relatively close in age, my dad was the eldest of 8 children and he is the youngest. So, for many years I did nothing but play with lego, build all kinds of machinery and in…
Everyone knows a horror story about PayPal, I’ve had several painful experiences with them over the last decade, but now I’ll never have to…
My post on pointers provoked a lot of debate about maps and pass by reference semantics. This post is a response to those debates.
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The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia in Turkey. A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday 29 April. ...
If you prefer video over blog posts, here is my talk on this at GopherCon 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyuFeiG3Y60
At RailsConf, the Citus engineering team found themselves sharing lots of useful Postgres tips on how to debug and improve the performance of your Postgres database from your Rails app. Includes topics like long-running queries, misbehaving queries, pg_stat_statements, pgBouncer, and more.
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