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Language Pragmatics Engineering
On best practices and gradient descent.
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WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets
Today we are very excited to launch a new initiative that will start shaping the future of WebAssembly on both the browser and the server. WASI was ann...
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Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams
Learn how to use to_form/1 and LiveView Streams to create a dynamic list of forms.
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Sigils are underappreciated (2022)
Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…
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Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code
After many years coding in different teams — big and small — I think I can now finally explain to myself why and when do we need, or not…
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My first superoptimizer
I heard about these mythical programs that find optimal code through a brute-force search, but I didn't know how they worked. So I made one.
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Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are excited to announce a new API in Cloudflare Workers for creating outbound TCP sockets, making it possible to connect directly to databases and any TCP-based service from Workers
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How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
Emacs 29 introduces tree-sitter support, a powerful parsing library that enhances its understanding of source code. With this integration, Emacs gains features like precise syntax highlighting, accurate indentation and easier extensibility. Here's how you install and configure Emacs with tree-sitter support.
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
An ode to Lua
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Bcrypt at 25
As one of the creators of bcrypt back in 1997, I find it somewhat surprising that, 25 years later, we still rely heavily on passwords. My initial encounter with password security took place in 1993 at the University of Hamburg. Having just discovered Unix, I was fascinated by a service called Yellow Pages that allowed…
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Why Learn Compilers (2021)
A sufficient understanding of computers is impossible without learning how compilers and their parts work. It is like stepping into the computer's mind and seeing how it feels from the inside. Compil...
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Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (2020)
Make your own BASIC to C compiler in Python.
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Integrating Zig and SwiftUI
Building a native GUI for a cross-platform application is a decades old problem. Nowadays, most people just don't and fallback to using a non-native experience such as Electron instead.
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Hard stuff when building products with LLMs
In this post, Phillip talks through the challenges & pitfalls of LLMs we faced when building our Query Assistant - and that you too may face.
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Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception. HTTP QUERY is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request body. It's still...
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Oxidizing OCaml: Locality
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented.
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Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy
You can now use Node.js built-in modules like `node:http` on Deno Deploy, allowing you to run existing Node.js apps at the edge.
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That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
Combining Nix stores makes development environments more portable. How a layered store can bring Nix Flakes to millions of Replit users.
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Cases where full scans are better than indexes
Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it's worth switching to indexing, though, might be higher than you'd guess. Here are some cases I've…
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Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4
Lately, I've been playing around with LLMs to write code.
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Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages
This update augments compatibility with npm and Node.js, incorporates glob support, and enhances TLS certificates with IP addresses. It also brings forth improvements to the configuration, language server, APIs, and updates to V8 and TypeScript.
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How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
SectorC ( github ) is a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits within the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine. It supports a subset of C that is large enough to write real and interesting programs. It is quite likely the smallest C compiler ever written.
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Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs
A few months ago, I shared the article, Understanding Large Language Models: A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed, and the positive feedback was very motivating!
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A guide to closures in Rust
Understand how closures really work in Rust
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SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
A short recap of how SQLite now has a WASI build