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Stunned by Go
The original working title for this post was "Go is hostile to developers". This was named at a time of extreme frustration, and it didn't ...
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Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way
Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…
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What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future?
A developer I know recently told me that he wasn’t interested in any new opportunities in the short term because his team were about to adopt Fred George’s post-agile concept of Programmer Anarchy…
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Communicating Sequential Processes
With the arrival of core.async , ClojureScript provides a powerful advantage over other popular compile to JavaScript languages like CoffeeScript , Dart , and TypeScript . These languages fail to address the single largest source of incidental complexity for any sizeable client side application - concurrency. In my…
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Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
Lately while there's been discussions of various new (for varying definitions of 'new') companies who have chosen Perl, there's not been a huge amount of discussion about how they use Perl. I contacted JT Smith of Plain Black Corporation and he graciously agreed to talk about The Lacuna Expanse , a MMORPG with a Perl…
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the beginning of their career – assuming they can act upon it (and I really don't know whether my 20-year-old self could…
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Useful GitHub patterns
Both my day job and my open-source work involve constant use of git and GitHub. These are some useful patterns that I’ve found myself using regularly. (From this point onwards, I shall abbreviate a “pull request” as PR).
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Why the world needs Haskell
This is a technical review of Haskell and why software developers should care about functional programming. For a non-technical review of why your company should be using Haskell you might want to watch this introduction to Haskell video by FP Complete.
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Why mobile web apps are slow
I’ve had an unusual number of interesting conversations spin out of my previous article documenting that mobile web apps are slow. This has sparked some discussion, both online and IRL. But…
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The Go 1.1 scheduler
One of the big features for Go 1.1 is the new scheduler, contributed by Dmitry Vyukov. The new scheduler has given a dramatic increase in performance for parallel Go programs and with nothing better to do, I figured I'd write something about it.
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Monocle
I've been working on a project called Monocle [http://monocle.io] these past few weeks, and it's time to show it to the world. Monocle is an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content with a focus on technology, startups and frankly anything
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A few words on Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
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RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement
Etienne Laurin ( @atnnn ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this one-minute video:
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Your test suite is trying to tell you something
A few weeks ago I started wondering about 'the test that occasionally and randomly breaks' in a large test suite at my job. The test, calle...
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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.