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Reading academic computer science papers
You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it's at.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option: Not a walled garden like Facebook or Instagram where you either don’t see any content at all or are bombarded with “sign up to continue” popups…
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Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
Self-host map APIs on your own cloud account, serverlessly
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Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0-preview1. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements.
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TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
TL;DR: This is a proposal to create a language that sits somewhere between Typescript and Rust, and which you can incrementally adopt if you already use Typescript.
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What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.
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The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
It's time for a little dive into mid-1990s computer history!
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A detailed look at the S-300P anti-aircraft missile system
Technical Report APA-TR-2006-1201; Title: Almaz S-300P/PT/PS/PMU/PMU1/PMU2 / Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf / SA-10/20/21 Grumble/Gargoyle ; Abstract: Introductory technical analysis and development history of the Almaz-Antey S-300P family of Surface to Air Missile systems. Includes diagrams, imagery and variant tables…
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I stopped advertising and nothing happened
What happens when you turn off all of your Internet advertising? Apparently, nothing. This post explores how I came to the decision to turn off all ads, and what I found as a result.
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Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
I've been using Linux exclusively for ~15 yrs. This is my first time using Windows after a 15-year break. This is how it's been going.
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Use Git tactically
How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern.
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The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
Six percentage of each music files you’ve bought from Apple Music (iTunes Store) contain, literally, nothing. Why is Apple padding their music with zero-bytes?
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Money Stuff is Linear-ish
What was once a pre-market morning newsletter became an afternoon newsletter, 12 seconds at a time
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The underwhelming impact of software engineering research
This article was prompted by responses to a tweet I wrote in response to an analysis of the research area of papers submitted to the 2022 ICSE conference, the flagship conference for software engineering research. These led me to reflect on software engineering research in general. I’m sorry to say that I think that…
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Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
I am on a number of different compiler mailing lists. One of those is the mailing list for the Tiny C Compiler . Imagine my surprise when a recent email mentioned our latest series and suggested trying a similar approach to improve the code generator in TCC. I was interested to see if there were any low-hanging fruit…
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We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
The Wolfram Institute will pursue opportunities in scientific research based on a new multicomputational paradigm found during a project to develop a fundamental theory of physics.
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86Box: Why Not Pentium III?
When does “preservation” in emulation become impractical?
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A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
[Content warning: Food, culture shock, milk] They say that the past is a foreign country, and nowhere is this more true than with food. The book is A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Gr…
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AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API…
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Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR
This is not a list of things you should not do; it's simply a collection of things we did not.
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A whole website in a single JavaScript file
Explanation and making of a website in a single JavaScript file
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Friday.app is shutting down
We are shutting down Friday. Read more to learn about next steps, exporting your data, and more.
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Your competitor wrote the RFP you're bidding on
I think it was due to overwhelming boredom with the RFP process that I once partnered with my sales leader to say Yes to every single requirement on every RFP bid during the summer of 2020. We called it The Summer of Yes.
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λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus