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Writing parsers like it is 2017
Writing parsers like it is 2017 Chifflier & Couprie, SPW’17 With thanks to Glyn Normington for pointing this paper out to me. Earlier this year we looked at ‘System programming in R…
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Plans for partitioning in PostgreSQL v11
The reaction to the new table partitioning feature in PostgreSQL 10 has been overwhelmingly positive, but a number of people have already as...
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Announcing .NET Core 2.0
.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. […]
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Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding
We ran into a big blocker when designing SpriteBox Coding, a learn-to-code game for kids ages 5+. For some kids, code was simply…
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Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
Hello everyone The Python community has been discussing removing the Global Interpreter Lock for a long time. There have been various atte...
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Papers I like (part 2)
Continued from part 1. Once I was about a thousand words into describing background for GEMM, it became pretty clear that it made more sense to group the numerical math papers into one post, so her…
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Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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An Intro to Compilers
A compiler is just a program that translates other programs. Traditional compilers translate source code into executable machine code that your computer understands. (Some compilers translate source code into another programming language. These compilers are called source-to-source translators or transpilers.) LLVM is…
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Coding Machines
After a minute Patrick came back with a small dusty cardboard box. Dave and I stared as Patrick opened it and pulled out a network switch, the old kind from the days when they were made with metal cases. He plugged in the power supply and carefully straightened out a CAT -5 cable to hook the switch up to our network…
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Papers I like
This started out on Twitter and I expected having to write up maybe 50 or so, but then it made the rounds. I don’t think I have 1200+ papers that I’d recommend reading, and even if I di…
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Typed nils in Go 2
This is an experience report about a gotcha in Go that catches every Go programmer at least once. The following program is extracted from a larger version that caused my co-workers to lose several hours today.
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Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super …
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How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me
Can you see the resemblance?
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Hello WebAssembly
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
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Implementing Backup
How we implemented consistent, distributed, incremental backup in CockroachDB.
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Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases
Some say sharding is the best way to scale a database. Sharding enables you to linearly scale cpu, memory, and disk by separating your database into smaller parts. Yet, sharding is controversial. This post explores the principles of sharding relational databases for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C applications.
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?
I recently had a problem where part of the solution was to do a series of pointer accesses that would walk around a chunk of memory in pseudo-random order. Sattolo's algorithm provides a solution to this because it produces a permutation of a list with exactly one cycle, which guarantees that we will reach every…
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Official support for .NET
Stripe.net is a popular open-source library for .NET that many users rely on today. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of official client libraries.
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
How was Wolfenstein 3D made and what were the secrets of its speed? How did id Software manage to turn a machine designed to display static images for word processing and spreadsheet applications into the best gaming platform in the world, capable of running games at seventy frames per seconds? If you have ever asked…
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Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox
Shing Lyu's blog
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CHIP-8 in Common Lisp
In the previous post we looked at how to emulate a CHIP-8 CPU with Common Lisp. But a CPU alone isn't much fun to play, so in this post we'll add a screen to the emulator with Qt .