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Clojure is a product design tool (2015)
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Svelte 4
Updated performance, developer experience, and site
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Video Chess disassembled and commented
A fully commented disassembly of Video Chess
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
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Coroutines make robot code easy
Our FIRST Robotics team struggled with autonomous code for years. Coroutines were the missing piece.
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Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
Oh my… 2023 has been such a trek so far… If you have missed my previous article about my thoughts about editors and development platforms, I think it’s probably the moment to have a look at it.
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Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
Apple today announced the availability of new software tools that enable developers to create groundbreaking app experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
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Go 1.21 Release Candidate
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter
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How RLHF Works
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
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A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.
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JetBrains Noria
This is a multipart series on building Fleet, a next-generation IDE by JetBrains. Part I – Architecture OverviewPart II – Breaking Down the EditorPart III – State ManagementPart IV – Distributed Tr
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Emerging architectures for LLM applications
A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.
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Compiling Typed Python
With a little effort, you can make your mypy-typed Python go zoom.
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Representing Enums in PostgreSQL
Recently, we had a discussion about whether we should use native enums in PostgreSQL, or rely on regular string columns with CHECK constraints. In the end, we decided that we wanted to go with the latter.
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Hashing
A visual, interactive introduction to hash functions.
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“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)
There is a simple, useful idiom to make your bash scripts more robust - ensuring they always perform necessary cleanup operations, even when something unexpected goes wrong. The secret sauce is a pseudo-signal provided by bash, called EXIT, that you can trap ; commands or functions trapped on it will execute when the…
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Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go
When programming in Go, the amount of error handling is something that slaps you in the face. Most API’s you deal with will expose errors. It can become overwhelming, but with a few tips and a guiding principle we can make handling errors easy, keep our code clean and give you the confidence that nothing is breaking…
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MVC Isn’t MVC
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…
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Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I kept just talking about it until two…
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Plain text journaling in Vim
oppiliappan's μsings
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TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
TypeScript 5.2 introduces 'using', a keyword that disposes anything with a `Symbol.dispose` function upon leaving scope, making resource management easier.
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Bit Hacking (with Go code)
At a fundamental level, a programmer needs to manipulate bits. Modern processors operate over data by loading in 'registers' and not individual bits. Thus a programmer must know how to manipulate the bits within a register. Generally, we can do so while programming with 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit integers. For…
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Filenames and pathnames in shell: How to do it correctly (2020)
This article explains how to correctly handle filenames in Bourne shells (the primary shell of Unix/Linux/POSIX systems), based on the issues discussed in 'Fixing Unix/Linux/Filenames'. Many programs fail to work properly on filenames that include spaces, begin with dash (-), include newlines, and so on, because…
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My First Impressions of Nix
Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten years ago, I discovered Salt, a tool that…
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Goodbye, Twilio
As of this week and after almost four years, I'm not a Twilio employee anymore. I'm writing this while I work through a range of conflicting emotions, and try to adapt to new daily routines without…
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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely
By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel
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