The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,822 posts.
The TodoMVC implemented in Kobold weighs about 30kb when gzipped over the wire, out of which the gzipped Wasm blob is under 20kb. There are no tricks there . I haven't replaced the default allocator, nor have I minified the JavaScript (although I probably should).
I always got fascinated by heap memory. Questions such as How heap memory is obtained from kernel? How efficiently memory is managed? Is it managed by kernel or by library or by application itself?…
[…] Embedded in Academia : Why Take a Compiler Course? – Seconded, or whatever – my compiler course was briefer than I'd have liked but many of my peers didn't take it and I spent ages explaining what I thought where simple concepts to them when working on group projects and the like. […]
Series Introduction In this series of articles I would like to share with you a set of ideas that are meant to help non-technical people build a better intuition as to what the current software and…
React starter kits (Vite, Next, Astro, Remix, React Router) which help React developers to start a React project in 2025 ...
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique for fine-tuning models that has some advantages over previous methods:
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
This post introduces [[butler]], a virtual operating system that runs multi-players applications on the web. In two parts, I present:
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.
I describe why AWK is great for prototyping and is often the best alternative to the shell and Python
Suppose you’re not using a C runtime on Linux, and instead you’re programming against its system call API. It’s long-term and stable after all. Memory management and buffered I/O are easily solved, but a lot of software benefits from concurrency. It would be nice to also have thread spawning capability. This article…
The library for web and native user interfaces
Why DFINITY builds Rust with Bazel.
It is difficult to write software which reliably and safely manages processes on Unix; this is because of flaws in the API. I know of no Unix system which has solved these problems, but in this article I'll be specifically talking about the Linux process API.
Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions, and adopt OpenAI's GPT-4.
Deploy Go apps as single static binaries with systemd. No Docker, no npm, zero-downtime via socket activation. Modern complexity is often unnecessary.
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
UPDATE: has evolved a bit and is now on MELPA. I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a good try, preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT seemed ...
In this article, previously part of my new book, we look at the introduction of .NET Core, why it was created, and how it has evolved into .NET 7.
Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can …
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 20 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 395 in the Java Community Process.
Right. I said in the 8.0.0 blog post that it might be a good release. It was. Apart form the little bug that caused it to crash in several test cases. So now we shipped curl 8.0.1, which is almost identical apart from a single commit that was reverted. Exactly why this was not discovered … Continue reading curl 8.0.1…
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
wingolog: article: a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0. We highly encourage users to update to this version for many new features and other improvements. We have merged 544 https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A1.19.0+is%3Amerged pull requests to rele
