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What's New in SQLite 3.35
Math functions, column removal and RETURNING clause.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,828 posts.
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How Git servers work, and how to keep yours secure
Disclaimer: I’m no sysadmin extraordinaire, please please please correct me if there’s something blatantly wrong here:
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Routing the Technical Interview
The interviewer couldn’t help but notice her name, Nephele . It sounds Greek. But he didn’t ask, not wanting to get off on the wrong foot with the promising candidate. He made a mental note to look up the name afterwards.
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From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
Yes, my friends, it is true. After more than fifteen years using Vim, teaching Vim, proselytizing about Vim, all the while scoffing in the general direction of Emacs, I’ve seen the light. The light of Lisp… Or something. If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try, this post should help you get off the…
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Patten Matching in Nim
Nim fusion and pattern matching
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netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
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Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
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The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks
Read candid takes on engineering culture: 10x myths, agile failure modes, and full-stack fantasies that quietly damage software teams at scale.
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Fuzzing Java in OSS-Fuzz
Posted by Jonathan Metzman, Google Open Source Security Team OSS-Fuzz , Google’s open source fuzzing service, now supports fuzzing applicat...
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Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux
This article is a guide for achieving a full-as-possible Wayland setup on Arch Linux. If you follow the entire guide, by the end you will have:
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I don't want to learn your query language (2018)
This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language. There's a trillion different ORMs out there. Another trillion databases with their own query language. Another trillion SaaS products where the only way to query is to learn some random query DSL they made up.
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Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
This is old! When I wrote it, I was a very different person.As it turns out, growing up a bit made me care a lot less about the nuances of Rust programming.
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
Learn how to build a webhook, send it from your app, manage authentication, handle security, and provide a smooth developer experience to your customers.
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The technical interview practice gap
Access to technical interview practice matters more than raw technical ability, and without it, we won't fix representation in tech.
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Write libraries instead of services, where possible
For any developer with limited resources, this means a library (where viable) can provide the same functionality to the user, at a lower cost to the developer than a service.
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
tldr: Rust/coreutils is good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox and the Linux Kernel.
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Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
I spent a lot of time and effort digging up the numbers and facts for this post! Lots of people keep referring to the awesome summary put together by a friendly pseudonymous "Tim" which says that "53 out of 95" (55.7%) security flaws in curl could've been prevented if curl had been written in Rust. … Continue reading…
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Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
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What science can tell us about C and C++'s security
There are not a lot of very strong empirical results in the field of programming languages . This is probably because there’s a huge amount of variables to control for, and most of the subjects available to researchers are CS undergraduates. However, I have recently found a result replicated across numerous codebases…
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An Introduction to ASCII Ray Marching
An introduction to raymarching in C++ with diffuse Phong shading and ASCII-terminal output.
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
I’ve spent the last year building keyboards , which has included writing firmware for a variety custom circuit boards.
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Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
Deep dive into Citus columnar storage for Postgres. Includes a quickstart, as well as performance measurements for data loading, compression ratios, and query response times. Also covers how columnar relates to Citus, integration with Postgres range partitioning, limitations, & ways to get started.
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Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database
Actionable steps on how to improve your Postgres database performance.