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On a great interview question
Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,822 posts.
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Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers
Recently, LLM-based agents have been all the rage – with projects like AutoGPT showing how easy it is to wrap an LLM in a simple agentic loop and prompt it to achieve real-world tasks. More generally, we can think about the class of ‘scaffolded’ 1 LLM systems – which wrap...
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Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth
A couple of months ago our washing machine produced a considerable quantity of smoke when I opened its door, which I interpreted as a suggestion that a replacement was needed. After rummaging around the internet for advice, a couple of days later a new Miele washing machine took its place in our home.
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Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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A Cryptographic Near Miss
A recent issue in scalar multiplication makes for a good case study of how unsafe interfaces, undocumented assumptions, and time lead to vulnerabilities.
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Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
Automatically Update Your Profile with Fresh Content and Showcase Your Latest Work
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Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings
[Part of a series: Penrose and hats | Spectres | finite-state transducers | more transducers | refining tilings ]
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Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags
Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods
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What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year
A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.
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Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
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Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa
Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all
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Who invented vector clocks?
Back in spring 2020, I was wrapping up the distributed systems course I was teaching, and for the last lecture, decided to spend a little time poking at the question of who actually invented vector clocks. Most people who need something to cite for vector clocks cite Friedemann Mattern’s “Virtual Time and Global…
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Two types of software engineers
One assumes it's easy because it's a non-technical problem, the other assumes that's why it's hard
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Modular Errors in Rust
It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented). The practice provides numerous benefits to the codebase and project as a whole:
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A 1.5GB string
In my previous role, I supported a Java service that operated similarly to RDP or Citrix by enabling remote UI functionality. This service relied on sessions, which consisted of interconnected Java objects that were supposed to be cleaned up either when a user logged out or after a predetermined timeout period.
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Why and how we retired Elm
Kevin Yank’s website
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Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014)
People seem to think that writing a garbage collector is really hard, a deep magic understood by a few great sages and Hans Boehm (et al) . Well it’s not. In fact, it’s rather straight forward. I claim that the hardest part in writing a GC is writing the memory allocator, which is as hard to write as it is to look up…
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Custom Allocators in Rust
Posts and writings by Nical
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Tidyverse 2.0.0
Now including lubridate!
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Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux
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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Pydantic V2 rewritten in Rust is 5-50x faster than Pydantic V1
What’s new in Pydantic v2: 5-50x faster than Pydantic v1 and with substantial architecture improvements for enhanced safety & maintainability
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…
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Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API
Note: The focus of this article is to explain the process of reverse engineering, and it is not continually updated to reflect ongoing changes in Facebook APIs. If you are looking for updated details, consider basing your work on open-source projects like mautrix/meta , which is developed by my employer Beeper .
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Buck2: Our open source build system
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…
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WebAssembly Tail Calls
This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.
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Spotting and avoiding heap fragmentation in Rust applications
One of our Rust services started to show an odd memory profile. This is the story of how we investigated the issue.
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Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI
Welcome to the future of server-side development with WebAssembly! Today we are introducing **WCGI**, a technology that marries the power of WebAssembl...