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Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
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Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep
I’ve been working on some long-needed updates to Videogrep , my command-line tool that automatically generates supercuts. These updates were motivated in part by a 10 week class I recently developed and taught at the School for Poetic Computation called Scrapism (web-scraping-as-art). The class includes a section on…
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Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
Recently, I came across a few old and new interviews of Donald Knuth (sources: (i) Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth , (ii) Interviews conducted by Lex Fridman Part 1 and Part 2 ), where he sheds light on his work habits, how he approaches problems, and his philosophy towards happiness. I really enjoyed reading…
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Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
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How Uber Uses Zig
I talked at the first Zig meetup in Milan about Uber's early experience with Zig: a little about how Uber uses Zig and more about my experience of bringing Zig to Uber, from both technical and social aspects.
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Useful Python decorators for data scientists
I show toy implementations of Python decorator patterns that may be useful for Data Scientists.
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What’s in Which Python
A concise summary of Python’s versions, and what’s in each.
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Useless Use of "dd" (2015)
tl;dr: dd works for reading and writing disks, but it has no "low level I/O" capabilities that make it more suited for this than any other shell utility. Like cat you should use it where it makes sense, e.g. to take advantage of its wide array of options, rather than try to ensure that all disk related commands begin…
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“What if it changes?”
How and why to use the second most powerful question known to software development
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Programming with Nothing
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer
Wishing Compiler Explorer a very happy tenth birthday
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C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.
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How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder
Veja o post original em português em How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder. How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder One of the things that looks like magic is the search for m…
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The balance has shifted away from SPAs
There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago. Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are…
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The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose
... in which we look at one or two ways to make life easier when working with Python regular expressions.
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Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
It’s an exciting time in the Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast community – that was a joke, there is no enthusiast community, it’s just me! 😆
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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few other things so check it out.)
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Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
Deep dive into the sort performance improvements in PostgreSQL 15, along with charts to visualize what types of queries will be faster. Includes speedups in single column sorts, reduced memory consumption with generation memory context, specialized sort routines for common datatypes, & use of k-way merge.
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Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
GOV.UK dropped their jQuery dependency from their front end. You'll never guess what happened. (Yes, you will.)
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Rust: A Critical Retrospective
Since I was unable to travel for a couple of years during the pandemic, I decided to take my new-found time and really lean into Rust. After writing over 100k lines of Rust code, I think I am starting to get a feel for the language and like every cranky engineer I have developed opinions and because this is the…
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.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
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Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 10 years at Google
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The Code Is the To-Do List
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.