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Static analysis of an unknown compression format

Speed Hashing

Why I’d like a “license type” setting for GitHub projects

Edit scheme on your iPad via the parse tree: Lisping launched

You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors

Karl Seguin2012177 points51 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing

The byte order fallacy

Rob Pike2012107 points103 commentscited by 15Software Engineering details

Whenever I see code that asks what the native byte order is, it's almost certain the code is either wrong or misguided. And if the native b...

I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code

“So the site’s pretty simple, all it needs to do is X, Y and Z. You seem like a good programmer so I’m sure it will only take you a few days to put it toge

Pragmatic Unicode

Unicode can be confusing. Here’s a “just the facts I need” presentation about how to handle it correctly.

57 Small Programs that Crash Compilers

I noticed there are no MSVC examples in there — was it not a targeted compiler? If so, I’m curious as to why.

This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.

In praise of... text files and protocols

John Graham-Cumming2012176 points88 commentsSoftware Engineering details

The other night I had to debug a problem where CMYK colors specified in an OmniGraffle file weren't making it into an exported PDF (or at...

Love hotels and Unicode

Math For Programmers

Steve Yegge2012167 points50 commentscited by 13Math & Algorithms details

Probability theory might be the most useful area for programmers, but it is also a blurry field, difficult to learn right. You might check this book for details, and there is also an free, online draft version available. The Logic of Science

Yahoo’s Mojito is Now Open Source

Yahoo Developer Network2012130 points36 commentsSoftware Engineering details

The Future of Python HTTP

Walken on Rails

Collective Idea Blog2012125 points10 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Our new screencast series features narration by Christopher Walken.

Douglas Crockford on Fat Arrow Functions in JavaScript

Dead Programmers Aren't Much Fun

Introducing Grunt

Visualizing Code to Fail Faster

Why You Don't Need A Programmer

Go version 1 is released

The Go Blog2012582 points148 commentsProgramming Languages details

A major milestone: announcing Go 1, the first stable version of Go.

Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot

Agile is a Sham

ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

weblogs.asp.net2012225 points100 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls

Gun.io Blog2012306 points20 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Everything you need to know to pull down, branch off of, squash, and fork in GitHub in one handy little guide.

No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more.

An Enigma cipher machine implemented in an Excel spreadsheet by a non-programmer

Keeping bash history in sync between multiple terminals

Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance

Don Stewart2012123 points55 commentscited by 5Programming Languages details

After the last post about high performance, high level programming, Slava Pestov, of Factor fame, wondered whether it was generally true that “if you want good performance you have to write C…