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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
I love bug squash interviews.
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On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)
I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about “expert” roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don’t see too many modern books or posts that…
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Getting back into C programming for CP/M
This article is about how programming for CP/M, usng a 40-year-old C compiler, differs from modern C development, even for console applications.
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How the OCaml type checker works (2022)
A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.
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Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables
As developers, we use databases all the time. But how do they work? In this series, we'll try to answer that question by building our own SQLite-compatible…
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Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?
A quiz to see how you compare to language models.
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An unordered list of things I miss in Go
I like Go. I think it is a reasonable good language , and has some good qualities that makes up for its flaws. However, this doesn't mean I think the language couldn't be better, far from it.
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Hacking with PDF (2022)
Inspiration of how we can use PDF as an attack vector and perform multiple attacks with huge subsequences to the victim.
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The weird of function-local types in Rust
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
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Zngur: A C++/Rust interop tool
Zngur (/zængɑr/) is a C++/Rust interop tool. It tries to expose arbitrary Rust types, methods, and functions while preserving their semantics and ergonomics as much as possible. Using Zngur, you can use arbitrary Rust crates in your C++ code as easily as using them in normal Rust code, and you can write idiomatic…
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The future of Deep Learning frameworks
Assumed audience: ML researchers who frequently work with PyTorch , but are interested in trying out JAX or have yet to be convinced.
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The LMAX Architecture (2011)
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
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Automating My /Now Page
A deep dive into how I automated my now page on my personal website by creating a Go script and making use of GitHub Actions.
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Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
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Yesterday's Pixels, Today
In August I finished work on a game called Restricted Airspace for the Wonderbundle, a bundle of new games by NYC game designers available as a reward to backers of the Wonderville Kickstarter . It is a 3rd person aerial shooter in the style of the original Star Fox set in a city modeled on Beirut in the 1890s. It was…
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Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
An overview of the tools and environment Stripe engineers used to write and test code, as of 2019 or so.
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Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.
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How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
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Re-fixing Servo's event-loop
A follow-up on a previous story, in which we identify another problem, and perhaps confirm a theory through a theorem.
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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
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CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good
I would simply use delimiter characters to delimit data.
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Basic MetaProgramming in Zig
Getting started with Zig's meta programming capabilities by leveraging a few useful functions
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Go 1.23 Released
This page summarizes the changes between official stable releases of Go. The change log has the full details.
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What you learn by making a new programming language
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming languages. This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist. Those already have people making them better. Let's focus on the task at hand.
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Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc
A compelling idea in the Transient UI package is the ability to craft interfaces where commands specific to a context can be discovered and used. Such contextual interfaces enable a user to...
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0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE Recently, the origin of the magic numbers of 0xCAFEBABE and 0xFEEDFACE came up in an email conversation between a number of ex-NeXT folks. Specifically, someone asked what the origin of the two magic numbers were in the context of mach-o file formats and why had Java…
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Quote-unquote "macros"
You’ve probably seen this Python 101 thing before: @memoized def fib(n): if n <= 1: return n return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) Leaving aside the absurdity of computing Fibonacci numbers recursively, it’s a common first introduction to Python decorators and higher-order functions. fib is just a function, and memoized…
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Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic
TL;DR: You can use Pydantic’s support for tagged unions to approximate sum types in Python; go right to Sum types in Python (and onwards) to see how it’s done.
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Okay, I Like WezTerm
A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.