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Stop Writing Dead Programs
A strong runner up was this quote, which captures the essence of what we should be trying to do when creating new languages:
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We're Drowning
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
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Syntax Design (2014)
A programming language gives us a way structure our thoughts . Each program, has a kind of internal structure, for example:
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Why Rust?
I've been a programmer for 20+ years, and few things excite me as much as Rust. My background is mostly in C++, though I have also worked in Python and Lua, and dabbled in many more languages. I started writing Rust around 2014, and since 2018 I've been writing Rust full time. In my spare time I've developed a popular…
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Postgres 15 Merge Command with Examples
We’re excited about the MERGE command in PostgreSQL 15. We have some ideas about using it for data loading with an example use case for remote sensors.
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Magical Handler Functions in Rust
In this post we take a deeper look into one of the most popular design patterns in Rust web frameworks, the magical handler function.
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PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its (2021)
Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
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Yagni Exceptions (2021)
A list of some exceptions to the principle of “You Ain't Gonna Need It” – that is, times when doing a bit more up front usually pays off.
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Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva.
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Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer
Use new programming languages knowledge to level up your Software Engineer career!
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Moving from React to htmx
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
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Building a database buffer pool in Zig using io_uring's new fixed-buffer mode
In this post, we will explore how to build a high-performance database buffer pool in Zig using io_uring's new fixed-buffer mode.
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We're moving on from Firebase
We’ve launched dozens of applications on Firebase, utilized nearly every facet of the platform, and designed a playbook for scaling gracefully. Suffice it to say, it’s proven an invaluable tool for K-Optional Software. As recently as March 2022, our developers were cheering innovations like Firebase Extensions…
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Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
Recently I started a site of tools for boardgames players . Simple tools like dice and spinners.
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A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis
a bare minimum introduction to modern program synthesis
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Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
Comparing one of the most popular Postgres features against alternatives
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Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
Code can really be written with any text editor that you're comfortable with. I tend to use Vim for quick edits and writing notes, and on L...
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Retrowin32, a Win32 emulator
Small steps towards running my favorite demo again.
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A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem
Historically, large general-purpose libraries have formed the core of the Fortran scientific ecosystem (e.g., SLATEC , or the various PACKS ). Unfortunately, as I have mentioned here before, these libraries were written in FORTRAN 77 (or earlier) and remained unmodified for decades. The amazing algorithms continued…
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Digging into a QEMU problem of slow data copying
The work on QEMU and this post was paid for by Determinate Systems, and the post was co-published on the Determinate Systems blog .
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Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
Can Stripe actually use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions and invoice its customers? We conducted the experiment.
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How boring should your team's codebases be
Thoughts on how to keep the novelty in a team at the correct level for easy onboarding
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We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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New ScyllaDB Go Driver: Faster Than GoCQL and Its Rust Counterpart
How we built a new Go ScyllaDB driver that’s almost 4x faster than its GoCQL predecessor and 2X faster than its Rust counterpart.