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UPDATE: This article has started an ongoing conversation with the Godot devs. They care about the issues raised, and would like to improve things. Significant improvements will almost certainly be made, although it’s still early days and it’s unclear what will change and by how much. I am encouraged by the response. I…
iOS 17 makes iPhone even more personal and intuitive with StandBy, easier sharing with AirDrop, and more, and is available as a free software update.
In the old days when I started programming, green programmers trying to build their skills and get experience started out doing maintenance programming. Only the old hands got to write new code. The newbies cut their teeth debugging and fixing musty old code that still worked for the business. I’ve done my share of…
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin.
If you're considering building a homemade billing system for your SaaS company, there are a few things you should be aware of. In this article, Qonto's first billing engineer shares four lessons he learned while working on this project.
Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. However, they can incur a lot of memory fragmentation that's not trivial to avoid without good support for metaprogramming. This post goes into Zig's powerful comptime feature, and how it allows some radical…
Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include:
In Rust, there are certain API decisions about what is and isn’t sound that impact all Rust code. That is, a decision was made to allow or not allow types which have certain safety requirements, and now all users are committed to that decision. They can’t just use a different API with different rules: all APIs must…
Algebraic data types in Java.
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Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.
Getting a kickstart in the logic programming world with Prolog
Code linearity is more desireable than keeping abstraction layers separate.
<p>A webhooks allow two applications to communicate events. It is relatively simple to get started using webhooks using HTTP and JSON. However, there a number of failure scenarios that developers should be aware of in order to make their webhook implementation robust.</p>
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What are the options for game developers looking to migrate away from Unity?
Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API
“When will there be a Rust IDE?” Update: RustRover is now generally available, with free non-commercial use and commercial licensing options. Learn more about the RustRover release. We get this
Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine and your desire for…
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We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
