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Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy
You can now use Node.js built-in modules like `node:http` on Deno Deploy, allowing you to run existing Node.js apps at the edge.
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That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
Combining Nix stores makes development environments more portable. How a layered store can bring Nix Flakes to millions of Replit users.
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Cases where full scans are better than indexes
Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it's worth switching to indexing, though, might be higher than you'd guess. Here are some cases I've…
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Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4
Lately, I've been playing around with LLMs to write code.
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Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages
This update augments compatibility with npm and Node.js, incorporates glob support, and enhances TLS certificates with IP addresses. It also brings forth improvements to the configuration, language server, APIs, and updates to V8 and TypeScript.
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How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
SectorC ( github ) is a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits within the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine. It supports a subset of C that is large enough to write real and interesting programs. It is quite likely the smallest C compiler ever written.
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Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs
A few months ago, I shared the article, Understanding Large Language Models: A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed, and the positive feedback was very motivating!
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A guide to closures in Rust
Understand how closures really work in Rust
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SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
A short recap of how SQLite now has a WASI build
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Let's Build a Compiler (1988)
This series of articles is a tutorial on the theory and practice of developing language parsers and compilers. Before we are finished, we will have covered every aspect of compiler construction, designed a new programming language, and built a working compiler.
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Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas
TLDR: Demo is at , code is at . The Problem When building a website or app using HTML Canvas, it’s often a requirement to support a flood fill. That is, when the user chooses a colour and cli…
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How to start a Go project in 2023
I previously wrote about starting a Go project in 2018. A lot has changed since I wrote that and I had been wanting to write an updated version. What follows should be enough for anyone new to Go to …
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Removing PGP from PyPI
PyPI has removed support for uploading PGP signatures with new releases.
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Why I Use Elm in 2023
Building UIs in HTML+CSS can be untenable. When making complex frontend experiences, I reach for Elm.
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The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)
In this long article, I, being as far as I know the first outside Microsoft to have learnt how the AARD code works, explain that I condemn its form but broadly sympathise with its function.
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Demystifying Tupper's Formula
A book I was recently reading mentioned a mathematical curiosity I haven't seen before - Tupper's self-referential formula . There are some resources about it online, but this post is my attempt to explain how it works - along with an interactive implementation you can try in the browser.
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Io uring
Introduced in 2019 (kernel 5.1) by Jens Axboe, io_uring (henceforth uring) is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls, and receiving the results as they're generated. Whereas epoll and kqueue support multiplexing, where you're told when you can usefully perform a system call using some set of…
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CRDT Benchmarks
Open-source TypeScript library for collaborative JSON editing powered by CRDTs.
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The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (2017)
3 interesting uses of DISTINCT in PostgreSQL
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Memory Allocation
A visual introduction to memory allocation.
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Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs
Highlights: CloudGuard Spectral detected malicious extensions on the VSCode marketplace Users installing these extensions were enabling attackers to steal %
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How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?
In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, ...
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Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023
It's been a hectic past few months for the project. In addition to the upcoming release on Steam, a lot of focus has gone into other major features. While not everything has landed yet, two very important changes to Android did arrive, one of which has been in the works for a couple years! We're talking about a large…
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Building a Handheld PC
I’d like to share with you my latest project: Decktility!
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Writing Python like it's Rust
You can check out a YouTube recording of a talk based on this blog post.
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Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter
We’re happy to announce the first release of Topiary, a formatter for many languages that leverages Tree-sitter.