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Hey, folks! Today we want to talk about the wonderful read-eval-print-loop (REPL) . Thanks to WebAssembly (Wasm), it's becoming increasingly common for programming language websites to embed a REPL in which passersby can easily evaluate code and get a feel for the language without having to install anything on their…
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
If you have a QA team, please read this and give them a large raise.
Ruby's `private` keyword means something different compared to basically all other object-oriented languages. Most other languages don't even have a feature matching what Ruby calls `private`, but incredibly, Scala does, which it calls `protected[this]` (meaning
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
(This post is now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) In 11th grade, I wrote my first program, Dingo Hopper. In the game, the player controls a png of a din...
We've re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. […]
TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult. For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia , available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives , has been manifesting itself into existence recently ( recently: after 10 years of work 1 ) and has finally reached critical mass 2 .
Christmas is coming up. When I used to work at a bank the entire month of December and a bit of January we were placed under “Change Freeze”. We weren’t allowed to deploy updates to our applications during this period. The thinking was: A lot of people are away over Christmas Application changes can lead to crashes…
For an ABI that probably nobody uses.
GigaGPT is Cerebras’ implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT – the simplest and most compact code base to train and fine-tune GPT models.
When we think “a fast AOT WebAssembly compiler and runtime”, we typically think about V8, Wasmer, WasmEdge or Wasmtime.
Undo and redo have been a staple operation of text editors probably since the first typo was ever made, yet there has not been a lot of innovation around refining the idea of what undo and redo could be. Let’s explore what I mean…
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence , without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic:
How I built a graphical bootable "game" for the Raspberry Pi (or any other modern computer) in C#.
Every now and then, when working on ScummVM’s Director engine, I run across a disc that charms me so much I just have to get it working right away....
Post by Eshel Yaron about changes for the worse in Emacs 30 registers feature
Understand the mechanics of dynamic dispatch implementation in CPython
fzf is a popular tool among command line hackers. But if you're an Emacs user, it's hard to use as it requires an interactive terminal. What if you could use Emacs to do the fuzzy finding instead of fzf?
In this blog post, we explore Spotify's journey from using the Fisher-Yates shuffle to a more sophisticated song shuffling algorithm that prevents clustering of tracks by the same artist. We then connect this challenge to Fibonacci hashing, and propose a novel, evenly distributed artist shuffling method.
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
A detailed analysis of our iterations to implement a Parser for Postgres
Adding noise texture with only code
Delve into best practices for HTTP, Ruby on Rails, and databases, and discover when to adhere to the rules or when breaking them could set your code apart.
An occasional blog about OpenPGP keyservers and related issues
