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React is the new jQuery
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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Released and Certified: Qt Safe Renderer
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads
Emacs 26.1 was recently released . As you would expect from a major release, it comes with lots of new goodies. Being a bit of an Emacs Lisp enthusiast , the two most interesting new features are generators ( iter ) and native threads ( thread ).
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Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We’ve added a new primitive type called Span<T> that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on…
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What is Software Engineering?
Nearly all of Go’s distinctive design decisions were aimed at making software engineering simpler and easier. We’ve said this often. The canonical reference is Rob Pike’s 2012 article, “ Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering .” But what is software engineering?
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Scrum disempowers developers
Last time, we looked at how Scrum has become the de facto definition of Agile, and how it is uniquely lacking in technical practices compared to the other methodologies that were involved in creating the Agile manifesto. This lack of technical good practices and craft causes some obvious
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The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?
Last week, the proposal review committee accepted the “vgo approach” elaborated on this blog in February and then summarized as proposal #24301 . There has been some confusion about exactly what that means and what happens next.
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To Yarn and Back to Npm Again
Yarn solved the annoying problems we faced using npm, but it came with issues of its own. Here are the problems of Yarn and solutions that we landed on.
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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
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A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table
Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table. This came about because last year I wrote the fastest hash table (I still make that claim) and this year one of the organizers of the C++Now conference asked…
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Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015)
A practical introduction to the programming language Scheme
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When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C
Over on GitHub, David Yu has an interesting performance benchmark for function calls of various Foreign Function Interfaces ( FFI ):
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Space Invaders from Scratch
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this post I will set up a window with an OpenGL 3.3 context u
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Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern
The Visitor Pattern is one of the most mis-understood of the classic design patterns. While it has a reputation as a slightly roundabout technique for doing simple processing on simple trees, it is actually an advanced tool for a specific use case: flexible, streaming, zero-overhead processing of complex data…
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Modern CMake short tutorial and best practice
The end of semester is here and, as I grade our students semestral works, I get to use CMakeLists of dubious quality. After seeing the same errors repeat over and over again, I decided to write a short tutorial towards writing simple CMakeLists.
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ReasonML – React as first intended
ReasonML is a technology Facebook uses to build React apps, seen as a futuristic version of JavaScript. Here is what you should know.
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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
For me, the most favorite type of a computer program is an emulator. Being able to run code from a completely different hardware architecture always seemed like a magic. The old computers are great on their own, so this kind of connection between historic machines and the modern computing environment feels almost like…
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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The Eudora Email Client Source Code
Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. The ability to quickly send and receive messages without having to be online at the same time created a new form of human communication. By now billions of people have used email.
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Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
PostgreSQL trigger performance. Should we use tiggers at all? Find out how triggers perform in performance tests.
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My favorite principle for code quality
The Embedded Design principle, Jimmy Koppel's favorite principle for code quality, shown via caching code that looks fine but invites bugs.
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
It's with sad hearts that we are announcing that search.cpan.org will be retired on the 25th of June 2018. Graham Barr originally wrote t...
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Deconstructing Kitty
So today we look inside these amazing cats that can somehow keep on wavin’ using less than 15 microwatts (!) of power. If you are into either ultra low-power or extreme design-for-manufacture, the you will want to see what is inside of these guys!