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Follow up to “I booted Linux 293k times”
Well that blew up. It was supposed to be just a silly off-the-cuff comment about how some bugs are very tedious to bisect. To answer a few questions people had, here’s what actually happened.…
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IKEA-Oriented Development
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
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I don't need your query language
Seriously, I don't. I'd prefer SQL.
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Iterating on Testing in Rust
With the release of rust 1.70, there was some surprise and frustration that unstable test features now require nightly , like all other unstable features in Rust. One of the features most affected is --format json which has been in limbo for 5 years . This drew attention to a feeling I've had: the testing story in…
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month in 1974, describing the lessons he learned leading IBM’s OS/360 project during the 1960s. As technology goes, it’s ancient. Consider the workflow for a “debugging run”:
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Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse
StreamingHttpResponse now supports async iterators when Django is served via ASGI.
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Control, escape, and meta tricks
Open a Unix or Linux terminal emulator. If you have Terminal.app on macOS, ensure that the "Use Option as Meta Key" option is enabled in its "Preferences" section. Now type foo bar baz followed by meta + b (i.e. alt + b or option + b on modern keyboards). In a typical desktop environment with a typical and modern…
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Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection
Single ownership is one of those concepts that's both easier and more powerful than we realize.
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is researcher attitude (e.g., they are unwilling to venture into the…
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Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Sequence diagrams really shine when you’re documenting different parts of a system and the various ways these parts interact with each other.
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A LiveView Is a Process
A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!
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The Stupid Programmer Manifesto
I'm not smart enough for modern web development, and that's ok
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Effective Rust (2021)
A collection of specific ways to improve your use of Rust
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This Week in Rust 499
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us…
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Native JSON Output from GPT-4
When integrating LLMs in your products, you often want to generate structured data, like JSONs. With the help of function calling (released June 13th 2023), this process has become much simpler! In this post I will explore the new API. Thanks for reading Simon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and…
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Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern
UPDATE: LiveView has added a built in, more robust way of using this pattern. Check it out here ! I've been using LiveView for about two ye...
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The PostgreSQL documentation and the limitations of community
In my opinion, the PostgreSQL documentation is simultaneously excellent and fairly poor, and both its excellence and its shortcomings are di...
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I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours
And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…
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Function calling and other API updates
We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.
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Text Editor Data Structures
Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures in an editor I have been building, specifically the most…
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Moving fast with the core Vim motions
Where you learn the power of motions and how you can move blazingly fast and with extreme prevision using VSCodeVim
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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A simple hash table in C
A simple hash table implementation in C, by Leo Robinovitch.
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Lisp Game Jam – “Wireworld” in WebAssembly Using Spritely's Hoot Project
This blog post focuses on our second Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 entry, wasm4-wireworld , an implementation of Wireworld on top of Hoot 's lower-level assembly tools which are a part of our Guile → Wasm project to bring Spritely Goblins -powered distributed applications to the common web browser.
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Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
Hey folks, this is a special one. Melange 1.0 The Melange team and I are thrilled to announce the release of Melange 1.0 today, marking a major milestone in...
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The power of keeping a coding journal (2014)
This post was inspired by the tool jrnl which has been mentioned on hacker news.