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JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments
Enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rather than solely in a mixture of HTML and JavaDoc @ -tags.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,820 posts.
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The Second Golden Age of Emacs
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
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React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Universal domain types
A guide to domain-specific types that make sense.
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Pains of building your own billing system
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.
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Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
I have been tinkering with the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Even though it is more than 20 years old and has rotten for modern systems, you can still compile it if you recreate the environment. All you need is :
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A retrospective on Requests
After writing my thoughts on github3.py down here, someone was asking about Python libraries that people recommend new Python developers read for learning how to structure code and use the packaging systems. My initial reaction was "Don't listen to folks that tell you to read python-requests as a good example." When…
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Coroutines in C (2000)
Structuring a large program is always a difficult job. One of the particular problems that often comes up is this: if you have a piece of code producing data, and another piece of code consuming it, which should be the caller and which should be the callee?
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ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the content of this article is just […]
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We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
Introducing Qdrant Summer of Code 2024 program. GSoC alternative.
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Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga
The Amiga was a spectacle of graphics and sound when it debuted in 1985. While it can trivially display colorful images like in the above example, doing so in the context of a game engine presents a lot of unique challenges.
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V Language Review (2023)
Review about V programming language in 2023
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Neat Parallel Output in Python
Make parallel tasks print nicely with zero dependencies.
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How to think about software quality (2022)
Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.
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Please make your table headings sticky
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll…
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The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking
Explore five methods of data change tracking in PostgreSQL available in 2024.
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing
Algebraic Effects are a useful abstraction for reasoning about effectful programs by letting us leave the interpretation of these effects to callers. However, most existing literature discusses these in the context of a pure functional language with pervasive sharing of values. What restrictions would we need to…
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Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Alejandra González (a.k.a @blyxyas) that seeks to compress a tic-tac-toe game state into as few bits as possible. She arrived at a solution in 18 bits. This got me thinking, can we do better?
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Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
Updated (2014-10-24): If you find this article interesting, you may be interested in the follow-up article on an editor for composed programs .