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Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver
What happens inside the WiFi Driver on RISC-V BL602... And how we found the incomplete source code for the driver
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Coming to Terms with Tailwind
For a while, I blocked the Tailwind keyword on Twitter. I was a bit mad that @tailwindcss and author Adam blocked me on Twitter after I wrote a bit of criticism that got popular.
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Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma
We decided to build our own serverless engine, one that would not be limited by existing implementations. The first version of Koyeb was built on top of Kubernetes and allowed us to quickly build a working cloud platform. After a few months of operating with this version, we decided to move user workloads from…
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Npm Audit: broken by design?
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
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Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)
UPDATE July 2021: 6 years later, there’s a game and also an updated explainer video .
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Debugging in Clojure
A guide to debugging in Clojure, using the REPL
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Programming Language Memory Models
Programming language memory models answer the question of what behaviors parallel programs can rely on to share memory between their threads. For example, consider this program in a C-like language, where both x and done start out zeroed.
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Measuring memory usage in Python: it’s tricky
Measuring your Python program’s memory usage is not as straightforward as you might think. Learn two techniques, and the tradeoffs between them.
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Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
Intro The goal of this tutorial is to describe Python development ecosystem. It can be helpful for someone coming to Python from another programming language. They say that you should stick to algorithms and data structures, that you can learn a new language in just a couple of weeks, that it’s just a new syntax. I…
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Write a time-series database engine from scratch
It covers how to make a time-series database engine from scratch
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Dynamic Linking Best Practices
In this article we’ll learn how to build shared libraries and install them properly on several platforms. For guidance, we’ll examine the goals and history of dynamic linking on UNIX-based operating systems.
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When static makes your C code 10 times faster
Addendum : Many Hacker News commenters correctly point out that the right way to indicate to the compiler that a value does not change is const . This post is not about C best practices, but just about how one can easily get to the bottom of this kind of surprising behavior by looking at the compiler output. This…
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Stop mocking your system
Yes, mocking has a mostly negative meaning! Only this - to imitate (someone or something) closely - doesn't feel negative.
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Let's build a simple interpreter for APL, part 2 (2020)
Today is the day! Today is the day we take our APL programs and interpret them, so that something like ÷ 1 2 3 -⍨ 1.1 2.2 3.3 can output 10 5 3.33333333.
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Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)
Best Practices vary from environment to environment, and there is no One True Answer, but still, this represents a consensus from #git and in some cases helps you frame the discussion for the generation of your very own best practices.
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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip of the iceberg of what's been done and…
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The Dawn of Formalized Mathematics
Here are the slides of my talk “The dawn of formalized mathematics” from the 8th European Congress of Mathematics , which is taking place online and in Protorož, Slovenia, from June 20 to 26, 2021:
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Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
Everyone 1 and their dog 2 loves Git. I know I do. It works, it’s efficient, it has a brilliant data model, and it sports every feature under the sun . In 13 years of using it, I’ve never found myself needing a feature it didn’t have. Until recently.
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In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins
An edge case has convinced me it's the 'last' return that always wins…
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Ways to ship software
An open letter from a former Facebook and VMware engineering executive on how startups can best structure their release processes.
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The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)
The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.
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Folk wisdom on visual programming
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…
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REPL vs CLI: IDE wars
An unfair heavily biased apples-to-oranges comparison… unless?
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Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
Don't do it like GitHub Copilot!
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