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Building My Own Chess Engine
Exploring the computational complexity of chess. Code snippets in Python so you can do the same.
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Defensive Programming
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Don’t Think, Just Defunctionalize
TL;DR: CPS-conversion and defunctionalization can help you to come up with a constant-stack algorithm.
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Double Blind Passwords a.k.a. Horcruxing
Before we get into Horcruxing, here's a quick prologue on online security hygiene. You can skip to the Horcruxing section if it seems redundant. 1. Longer…
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My Engineering Axioms
A few months back I gave a talk in which I shared a list of my personal engineering axioms – things that, over the years, I've come to think of as generally true and useful to have in mind when writing code, building things, and working with others.
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Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
There’s a well-known quote by author Michael Pollan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” I like it because it doesn’t attempt to be dogmatic: it encapsulates some basic guiding principles that get you 90% of the way there 90% of the time. Wikipedia describes the book the quote is from (emphasis mine):
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Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more
JSON is everywhere you look these days. The `jq` tool makes it easy to slice, dice, and transform JSON from the command line. It can be hard to map the official manual to real-world applications, so let's look at some practical examples of `jq` and its cousins that handle YAML & HTML!
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I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv
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Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. 2020 has been a long year. As it comes to an end we wanted to share a special Holiday Update on our research into zero-bundle-size React Server Components. To introduce React Server Components, we have prepared a talk and a demo. If you…
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I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust
About two years ago, I wrote a quite complicated diff tool in Clojure. It was complicated enough that I struggled to fit the algorithm in my head and the inputs were large enough that I had to make some efforts to improve performance.
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Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-rc1.
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Understanding how AES encryption works
Deepen your understanding of AES implementation using golang.
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Building a simple neural net in Java
Building a simple neural net in Java.
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An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (2012)
Lock-free programming is a challenge, not just because of the complexity of the task itself, but because of how difficult it can be to penetrate the subject in the first place. I …
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Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling
While exploring D recently, I remembered a game I played while at university 15 years ago. For a long time, I couldn’t remember the name at all, only that it was from a Japanese developer. After some search wrangling, I finally managed to find the name of the game: Torus Trooper!
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Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
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The Smalltalk Zoo
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.”
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Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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DRY Is a Trade-Off
DRY, or Don't Repeat Yourself is frequently touted as a principle of software development. "Copy-pasta" is the derisive term applied to a violation of it, tying together the concept of copying code and pasta as description of software development bad practices (see also spaghetti code ).
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A case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs
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Commits are shapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here.
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