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Fiber, a less known concept compared with coroutine, is a pretty powerful addition to cooperative multitasking. As a graphics programmer in game industry, I totally appreciate the great flexibility that fiber brings on the table. As a matter of fact, I feel the tech is a little bit underappreciated due to the lack of…
Visual studio code tunnel Introduction Since July 2023, Microsoft is offering the perfect reverse shell, embedded inside Visual Studio Code, a widely used …
Chronicling, plugin systems, and six other disjointed ideas combine in an argument of how to "engineerize" software more
If I give a programmer a string such as "9223372036854775808" and I ask them to convert it to an integer, they might do the following in C++: std::string s = .... uint64_t val; auto [ptr, ec] = std::from_chars(s.data(), s.data() + s.size(), val); if (ec != std::errc()) {} // I have an error ! // val … Continue reading…
When Java 17 was released in 2021 as a “long term support” version, I wrote an article dissecting its features and came to the conclusion that it had a few nice features, but none that were compelling reasons to upgrade. Except one: tens of thousands of bug fixes.
Discover all the options for change data capture (CDC) in Postgres––and which is best for your use case.
Many Rust beginners with a background in systems programming tend to use bool (or even u8 – an 8-bit unsigned integer type) to represent “state”. For example, how about a bool to indicate whether a user is active or not? struct User { // ... …
To better understand how transformers work, I hand-assigned all the weights to predict a simple sequence.
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.
I’ve been programming for a long time. When I say long time, I mean decades, with an S. Hopefully that’s long enough. In that time my experience has primarily been programming for contemporary platforms, e.g. Linux, Windows, macOS on desktop-class or server-class CPU architectures. Recently, I embarked on building a…
Recently I’ve stumbled upon a video about Kakoune, a code editor: Idiot user tries to use Kakoune (for notes? Also Helix?). Funnily enough, I was mentioned in this video, which was a surprise, and made me laugh for quite a while: Let’s go back to the official plugins page.
An introduction to strong arrows and how it leverages the Erlang VM to provide sound gradual typing.
We make micrograd fly with a little compiler magic. In this post, we’ll write a ML compiler from scratch.
Open sourcing our learnings around Windows APIs, COM, C++ and their delightful integration into Swift - while building Arc.
Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
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This week we (me & Anton Kovsharov) published Paperproof, a Gentzen-tree-like proof interface for Lean 4. In this post I'll review proof visualisations from o...
PostgreSQL 16 was released last week. This is the story of a feature.
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
Software is weird. In its basic form, software is this very abstract thing with seemingly little connection to the real world. Yet graphical applications running on a hardware device like a modern phone feel very real, even to people who have no appreciation of what happens within this “black box”. Some pieces of…
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Supposedly Bill Gates, circa 1981.
There’s a certain community in tech that’s very vocal about their preference toward native apps. I share that sentiment, yet sometimes people take this …
It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in work lingo. Rapala is a Finnish brand of fishing lure, and used to mean baiting in this context) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while…
