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In this article, I share a beginner friendly guide to learning the basics of embedded systems and how they work. I talk about micontrollers, electronics, and software. I also share my motivation for working on embedded systems.
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
DuckDB offers several extensions to the SQL syntax. For a full list of these features, see the Friendly SQL documentation page.
Why and how I added proper CSV support to GoAWK, my POSIX-compatible AWK interpreter.
If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again : the dream of Python without the GIL. Continuing this venerable tradition, Sam Gross kicked off the 2022 Language Summit by giving the attendees an update on nogil , a project that took the Python community by…
In this post, I want to give a nuanced perspective on our experience porting YJIT from C to Rust. I'll talk about the positives, but also discuss the things that we found challenging or suboptimal in our experience.
Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest i…
Where did that memset come from?
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you…
Engineers often have to ask each other for “estimates”– rough projections for how long projects will take. While some teams do rigorous estimation rituals to varying degrees of success, many situation
We can do better than writing HTML manually, but there are no developer-focused solutions.
Building distributed databases is very difficult. There are lots of clever ideas you can put into a distributed database, but making the ideas work well together in a real system can be very challenging because different decompositions of the same problem can massively affect how difficult it is to solve, and bugs are…
I first heard about the dinosaur 🦕 VS shark 🦈 analogy when I read this excellent article about relational databases:
Recently I was reverse-engineering an Android app [ a ] . The relevant details are as follows:
So that the app does not reset to zero after page refresh.
https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0
Rendering the wordle.org file as webpage and including in the docs as-is, because the Sphinx documentation generator doesn’t understand org-mode files, so we couldn’t render this page directly from Sphinx the usual way.
With the latest release, markdown gains programming language like tooling in VSCode
Whether I’m teaching new Pythonistas or long-time Python programmers, I frequently find that Python programmers underutilize multiple assignment....
Suppose we want to draw a batch of images, where each image is made up of randomly positioned and colored triangles, that are blending. It will look like this:
Rust is an appealing language for building user interfaces for a variety of reasons, especially the promise of delivering both performance and safety. However, finding a good architecture is challenging. Architectures that work well in other languages generally don’t adapt well to Rust, mostly because they rely on…
ETA, 2022-05-19: I'm happy this blog post has gathered a fair bit of interest. However, this post is as much effort as I'm prepared to put into the topic. I think it would be a good idea to write an essay, article, or even a book, on how syntax of the Unix command line has varied over the years, and in different…
Machine learning allows you to solve once unimaginable problem. Elixir's support for machine learning through Nx and Axon let us do impressive thing while staying in our favorite language.
It’s been over 3 years since I published my most successful blog post about the abject horror of templated yaml and in many ways, I feel the same way now
How I taught my 7½ year old 4 bash commands in one hour
