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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,535 posts.
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Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth
Introducing the autonomy, product, and operations teams.
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Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3
I’ve been reading Pearl’s Causal Inference in Statistics , and one of the exercises poses this problem:
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Introduction to Golang Preemption Mechanisms
A short explanation of what is preemption and how it works
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I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
How I used my own Rust tool to ship 175 quality pixel fonts.
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Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app
The latest version of this app is now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.More info on my apps website at: gingerbeardman.com/apps/stapler/
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How the SNES Graphics System Works
Last week's article discussed how the Super Nintendo's Video system feeds the TV's CRT. Today I'll summarize what I understand of the hardware generating these graphics.
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Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
Like the blip of an intro on the front page says, my degree was originally in music. My running joke as a web dev is that neither has meaningfully required me to count past 32. And while my main concentration was vocals, I've since realized I should probably stop strictly calling this a nontechnical field, because my…
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Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils
Over the last 18 months, I've taken the time to create 108 short YouTube videos that summarize all of the commands that are found in the Coreutils Package . These videos focus mostly on Coreutils v8.3, but also included are a few commands from v9.0 as well. For each of the blog posts, I've adapted and modified the…
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Isometric Projection in Game Development
Isometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.
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Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
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I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
Dmitry.GR: Everything you ever dreamed the RP2040 would be is here - fall in love with the RP2350
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FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention
In theory, Attention is All You Need. In practice, however, we also need optimized attention implementations like FlashAttention. Although these fused attention implementations have substantially improved performance and enabled long...
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Imagining a personal data pipeline
I've been thinking a lot about personal data lately: where it's stored, how to extract it, and what to do with it. Here's where I landed.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
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Puppeteer Support for Firefox
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
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Python extensions should be lazy
Python's memory model is a performance bottleneck. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
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Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
Back in Dec 2022, when inflation was running high, I built a website for tracking price changes in the three largest supermarkets of my home country, Greece.
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Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
A comprehensive comparison between Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL for search workloads.
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Structured Outputs in the API
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
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Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type
We have completely rewritten the string/binary data structure we use in Polars.
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Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
We build complex mathematical formulas bottom-up using pure lambda calculus. Includes instructions of how to translate Taylor series and other approximations to lambda terms.
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Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos
Using `mdb` and `pmap` to find the cause of a crash.
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C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance
Over the course of working on PSRayTracing (PSRT), I've been trying to find all sorts of tricks and techniques to squeeze out more performance from this C++ project. Most of it tends to be alternative algorithms, code rewriting, and adjusting data structures. I thought sprinkling the final keyword like an all purpose…