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Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)
Today you are frustrated.
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Monolith First (2015)
Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.
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Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM
News post: Gleam v0.14 released!
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Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
Learn some zsh tips to blow your mind and make your developer workflow easier.
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Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C
This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted November 2020 by the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Cambridge, Selwyn College.
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Overview ⚡ Zig Programming Language
Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge.
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Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)
I've spent a little more than a month working with Git now. I can honestly say that while there are many things that I like about Git, there are just as many things that I personally find to be a pain in the butt. Submodules specifically have managed to be a thorn in my side…
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The Database Inside Your Codebase
Navigating codebases of any meaningful size is difficult. Most of a programmer's time is spent jumping through the codebase, reading or skimming to build a ment...
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Functorio
You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …
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Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
I spend a fair amount of time wandering around in the terminal. The chances are that you are too since you dared to open this story. My daily activities led me …
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Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
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Is This a Branch?
Let’s try a new format – “shorts”; small blog posts where I elaborate on ideas that I’d discuss at my twitter, but they either come back over and over, or the short form doesn’t convey all th…
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Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
Here’s a list of reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance, assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns. When I write production code, I explicitly specify the columns of interest in the select-list (projection), not only for performance reasons, but also for application reliability…
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Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
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Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
Julia 1.0 came out well over 2 years ago. Since then a lot has changed and a lot hasn’t. Julia 1.0 was a commitment to no breaking changes, but that is not to say no new features have been added to the language.
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The complexity that lives in the GUI
The user interfaces are a weird thing. There are all sorts of libraries and frameworks that are supposed to help you on your journey of writing a GUI, but despite all the best practices and frameworks forcing you to eat your vegetables, the GUI always ends up being a ridiculous mess. After pondering some more about…
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Racket v8.0
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.0 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. *** Racket 8.0 is here!*** Racket 8.0 marks the first release where Racket CS is the default implementation. Creating, polishing, and adopting Racket CS has be...
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On navigating a large codebase
A while ago, I’ve been working on a very large codebase that consisted of a few million lines of code. Large systems are usually a big mess and this one was no exception. Since this is a rather common problem in software engineering, I thought the internet would be littered with stories about this topic. There is a…
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The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
Turning Outlook into a keylogger via VBA macros
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How .NET container images are maintained
An update on using .NET and containers together, learn how to tackle staying safe and keeping your container images up-to-date.