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How we use Rust in our mobile SDK
In this post, we'll discuss some specifics of how we use Rust to power our mobile frameworks for iOS and Android.
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What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
WABT gains a new decompilation tool that can make it easier to read the contents of Wasm modules.
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What I wish I knew about React
Articles on frontend development and more.
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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories
a blog post by @azwinkau
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Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees
Say we have some things, and we want to be able to store and look them up in order. We could just put them in a big sorted array:
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A Critique of React Hooks
A few thoughts to consider when using React hooks
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Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy
Last year, I was lucky enough to be gifted a Gameboy Color in great shape. Apart from its intended gameplay features, I also wanted to try and build something meaningful with it, so I made this application to control my air-conditioner over its existing, reverse-engineered infrared protocol.
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new
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Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha
How we developed a hybrid multi-DC and cloud monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Victoria metrics for monitoring system, app and service, and also business metrics.
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How to break everything by fuzz testing
Fuzz testing is a bit like the infinite monkey theorem, but instead of Shakespeare you get crashes.
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Customers do not ask for software complexity
Asking for software complexity is insane. Nobody wants software solutions that are complex. It is comparable with smart cities, intelligent lockdowns and safe banks. Nobody wants stupid cities, governmental panic measurements to fight covid-19 or a bank that can not be trusted with handling money.
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Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Researching and restoring differences in game’s post-processing and lighting - with bug fixes.
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Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer
One day a coworker mentioned that he was thinking about APIs for distributed compute clusters and I jokingly responded “clearly the ideal API would be simply calling telefork() and your process wakes up on every machine of the cluster with the return value being the instance ID”. I ended up captivated by this idea: I…
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SELECT wat FROM sql
Thanks to Nikhil Benesch, Justin Jaffray and several decades of "wouldn't it be nice if..." for contributions.
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Python 2 Is Dead
It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
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Software Development: Mistakes I Made
Recently I revealed the secret of academic success. This was so popular (16000 views!) that I decided I would follow up with the secret of software success – success in producing software. No…
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Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not
Whenever discussing problems with programming today and potential solutions, invariably someone will pop up and declare that the problem is ...
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I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
A blog about computing and other fun.
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Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
An introduction to shell productivity features: autocompletion, keyboard shortcuts, history navigation and shell expansions.
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Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
The following image is a "sneak peek" at the full implementation and the resultant system:
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ClojureScript 1.10.741
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully, there are two very significant changes. First, ClojureScript now ships with greatly enhanced support for integration with popular JavaScript bundling tools such as…
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CSS for Internationalisation
I've come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than…
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Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications
Most computer applications can be configured to behave a cer
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
I last wrote in December 2019 about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?
I've been porting the AndroidX collection library to Kotlin multiplatform to experiment with binary compatibility, performance, tooling, and the different memory models. Some of the data structures in the library use array-based binary trees to store elements. The Java code has a lot of shifts to replace power-of-two…
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A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
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Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers
It is commonly believed, wrongly, that Cap’n Proto doesn’t support “streaming”, in the way that gRPC does. In fact, Cap’n Proto’s object-capability model and promise pipelining make it much more expressive than gRPC. In Cap’n Proto, “streaming” is just a pattern, not a built-in feature.
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Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
With the Phoenix v1.5 release, learn how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive, real-time applications.