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One of my least favorite kinds of bug is when two different systems are interacting and the result has bad behavior but it’s difficult to say which (if either!) system is at fault. This is one of those stories, about Python’s buffer protocol and Rust’s memory model.
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Hello. This is the first of a series of blog posts I plan to write, breaking apart the algorithms and implementation of a custom 2D global illumination (or p...
curl, along with every other Internet tool with aspirations, supports proxies. A proxy is a (usually known) middle-man in a network operation; instead of going directly to the remote end server, the client goes via a proxy. curl has supported proxies since the day it was born. Which proxy? Applications that do…
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
Only nine months after I suggested Tailwind might someday hit an unpleasant inflection point, that may now be happening.
This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting. Like the rest of aretext, parsers are implemented in Go for portability and performance. Most people do not consider Go a functional programming language; nonetheless, aretext’s parsers rely on functional…
Clojure’s history is beautiful and simple in code. Nubank has a lot of reasons to say: happy birthday, Clojure!
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
In this final part of our Accounting for Developers series, we explore the ins and outs of building a ledger to power a lending marketplace product.
The SQL language is a "standard". Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike. Every SQL implementation has its own peculiarities and oddities, and SQLite is no exception to this rule.
A strong runner up was this quote, which captures the essence of what we should be trying to do when creating new languages:
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
A programming language gives us a way structure our thoughts . Each program, has a kind of internal structure, for example:
I've been a programmer for 20+ years, and few things excite me as much as Rust. My background is mostly in C++, though I have also worked in Python and Lua, and dabbled in many more languages. I started writing Rust around 2014, and since 2018 I've been writing Rust full time. In my spare time I've developed a popular…
We’re excited about the MERGE command in PostgreSQL 15. We have some ideas about using it for data loading with an example use case for remote sensors.
In this post we take a deeper look into one of the most popular design patterns in Rust web frameworks, the magical handler function.
Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
A list of some exceptions to the principle of “You Ain't Gonna Need It” – that is, times when doing a bit more up front usually pays off.
How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva.
Use new programming languages knowledge to level up your Software Engineer career!
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
In this post, we will explore how to build a high-performance database buffer pool in Zig using io_uring's new fixed-buffer mode.
We’ve launched dozens of applications on Firebase, utilized nearly every facet of the platform, and designed a playbook for scaling gracefully. Suffice it to say, it’s proven an invaluable tool for K-Optional Software. As recently as March 2022, our developers were cheering innovations like Firebase Extensions…
Recently I started a site of tools for boardgames players . Simple tools like dice and spinners.
