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Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard
never leave the comfort of your home row again
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,828 posts.
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Evaluating Search Algorithms
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.
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Software development is a loser’s game
Great code doesn’t save you, but bad code will kill you #HoskWisdom
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Game Engine: How I Implemented Skeletal Animation
In 2020, I started writing a 3D game engine from scratch in C++. This is a post about how I added skeletal animation to it. Drake is in it, so buckle up.
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Don’t use environment variables for configuration
Suppose you need to create a function for adding two numbers together in plain C. How would you write it? What sort of an API would it have?...
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TLA+ Action Properties
There’s not a whole lot on TLA+ technique out there: all the resources are either introductions or case studies. Good for people starting out, bad for people past that. I think we need to write more intermediate-level stuff, what Ben Kuhn calls Blub studies. Here’s an attempt at that. Most TLA+ properties are…
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Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
Some pros and cons of using Excel for software development compared to the traditional approach of using a programming language
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Signed Char Lotte
“signed char lotte” is a computer program written by Brian Westley and the winner of the “Best Layout” award in the 1990 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The cleverness of the text is staggering. Superficially it reads as an epistolary exchange between two (possibly former) lovers, Charlotte and Charlie. At…
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C# 9 top-level programs and target-typed expressions
Discover the new features in C# 9: top-level statements and target-typed new and conditional expressions. These features make C# less verbose and can be used in everyday programs.
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Golang: Know Your 'Nil'
In Golang, nil is an interesting value. You may be familiar with Go’s philosophy of making the “zero value” meaningful.
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Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf
I show how I improved four of my shell workflows to parameter-less commands with the help of fzf.
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Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Compiling a Lisp to x86_64 (2020)
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. -- Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon
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Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole
Edit 2021-03-30: Jeremy Mikkola wrote about some closely related topics back in 2017. Edit 2021-03-31: Chris Siebenmann wrote a response to this post that explains exactly how interface values that are nil are typed. It’s more complicated than I thought! I’m not sure I have another Rust & Postgres blog post in me…
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Git email flow vs. GitHub flow
Comparing the Github and Gitlab pull request workflow to the Git built-in email workflow.
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)
http://invisible-island.net/ autoconf/ Copyright © 2014–2015,2016 by Thomas E. Dickey
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Hello, HPy
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
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No one gives a shit what programming language you use
I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today…
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Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
A couple years back I gave a talk on researching software history, using “linked list interview questions” as an example topic. Since referring people to a video is less accessible than just writing a blog post, I’ve reproduced the question here. So why do interviewers like to ask linked list questions? If you ask…
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The Deno Company
We have raised money to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft.
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How much can a Clojure developer do alone?
A response to a developer weighing Clojure's benefits, explaining the REPL workflow through human-computer interaction and reflecting on individual productivity.
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I Hate Git Submodules
Abildskov.io
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Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
Three research developer tools that made programmers dramatically faster (Reflexion Models, the WhyLine, MatchMaker), and why none still run.
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Piano Practice Software Progress
First an apology. I started this project because during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic business was down to a fraction of what it was before then, and I had a lot of time on my hand. But that has changed now and there is a lot of work in my ‘day job’, so I don’t have a whole lot of time to work on the…
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Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and lessons
From the finding of the diagram’s goal and audience to review checklist