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On Good Software Engineers
I set out to find a simple definition that would help managers frame the fundamental things they expect from software engineers.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,819 posts.
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There is no such thing as a global method in Ruby
What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced
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A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
OK, so C# doesn’t share the Rust concept of “borrowing,” so it wouldn’t technically be correct to call this “borrow checking,” but in practice when people talk about “Rust’s borrow checker” they’re talking about all of the static analysis Rust does to ensure memory safety, for which I think this qualifies.
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We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.
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Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades
A deep-dive into the fundamental concepts/ideas behind Radiance Cascades.
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Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
A deep dive into a new reasoning technique called Entropix.
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A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall
If you love exploit mitigations, you may have heard of a new system call named mseal landing into the Linux kernel’s 6.10 release, providing a protection called “memory sealing.” Beyond notes from the authors, very little information about this mitigation exists. In this blog post, we’ll explain what this syscall is…
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Unsafe Rust is harder than C
Or: The Most Expensive Linked List I’ve Ever Written
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Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool
Anthropic released a new feature for their Claude.ai consumer-facing chat bot interface today which they’re calling “the analysis tool”. It’s their answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode: Claude can …
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Why Safety Profiles Failed
As for dangling pointers and for ownership, this model detects all possible errors . This means that we can guarantee that a program is free of uses of invalidated pointers.
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Lingo: A Go micro language framework for building Domain Specific Languages
Design, build and integrate your own Domain Specific Language with Lingo.
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New Architecture is here
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!
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Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices
Discover how Assembled uses LLMs to save engineering hours on test writing, boost productivity, and ensure code quality without slowing development.
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Rider is now free for non-commercial use
Develop .NET, ASP.NET, MAUI, Blazor, and Azure applications – as well as games with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot – on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Zero or Sign Extend
A while back I had to deal with a bit-packed format that contained a list of integer values encoded in one of a pre-defined sets of bit widths, where both the allowed bit widths and the signed-ness…
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Toasty, an async ORM for Rust
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoying
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
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A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT
As is probably apparent from the sequence of blog posts about the topic in the last year, I have been thinking about and working on integer optimizations in the JIT compiler a lot. This work was mainl
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Async Rust in Three Parts
Async/await, or "async IO", is a new-ish Rust added async/await in 2019. For comparison, C# added it in 2012, Python in 2015, JS in 2017, and C++ in 2020. language feature that lets our programs do more than one thing at a time. It's sort of an alternative to multithreading, though Rust programs often use both…
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Probably pay attention to tokenizers
Last week I was helping a friend of mine to get one of his new apps off the ground. I can’t speak much about it at the moment, other than like most apps nowadays it has some AI sprinkled over it. Ok, maybe a bit maybe more just a bit – depends on the way you look at it, I suppose. There is a Retrieval-augmented…
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TLA from First Principles
Building an intuition for the mathematics behind the "TLA" in "TLA+"
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What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?
Dive deep into the open-source architecture of Lichess.org to understand the technical processes behind making a move in a game.
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Optimizers need a rethink
Thoughts on how compiler and database optimizers should evolve in the future, focusing on predictability and guarantees instead of smarts and heroics
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A new JSON data type for ClickHouse
We’re excited to introduce our new and significantly enhanced JSON data type, purpose-built to deliver high-performance handling of JSON data. Our core engineer, Pavel Kruglov, dives into how we built this feature on top of ClickHouse's columnar storage.
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IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)
The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel.
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OOP is not that bad
OOP is certainly not my favorite paradigm, but I think mainstream statically-typed OOP does a few things right that are very important for programming with many people, over long periods of time.
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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript…
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What docs-as-code means
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, …
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Sampling with SQL
Sampling is one of the most powerful tools you can wield to extract meaning from large datasets. It lets you reduce a massive pile of data into a small yet representative dataset that’s fast and easy to use.