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A single character code change
Or four one liners every Java programmer should know
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Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)
In this article series, we look at Elasticsearch from a new perspective. We'll start at the 'bottom' (or close enough!) of the many abstraction levels, and gradually move upwards towards the user-visi...
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Event Sourcing (2017)
I recently became intrigued by the concept of event sourcing as applied to back-end architecture, specifically a microservice-oriented approach. I have spent the last few years working predominantly on the front-end, and became enamored by the simplicity and elegance of this pattern as the backbone of front-end…
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
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I'm not feeling the async pressure
An introduction to back pressure in systems and why it matters.
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Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
If this isn’t your first time visiting my blog, you may recall that I’ve spent the past several years building an elaborate microcontroller graphics demo using C++.
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Reasons to Learn Redux as a JavaScript Developer
Redux greatly shaped how we develop modern JavaScript applications nowadays. Here I want to give a walkthrough on all the mindset changes we went through as JavaScript developers ...
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Crafting Interpreters: Classes and Instances
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only — if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things — beautiful things — that they connect you to some larger beauty?
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Doing a database join with CSV files
How to combine data spread over two CSV files, like separate tables in a normalized relational database.
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Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is
This blog post is one of those things that just blew up. From a tiny observation at work about odd behaviors of spinlocks I spent months trying to find good benchmarks, (still not entirely successf…
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Generalized Knights
Knights in chess move in an L-shape: 2 squares in one direction and 1 square perpendicular. But what if it didn't have to be like that?
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On Technical Writing
How I make it work (or not)
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
Golang executable files get too large for reasons that are not relevant to server software with long-running processes, like CockroachDB, and its incurred space cost is particularly inconvenient for large, feature-rich programs.
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The Typestate Pattern in Rust
The typestate pattern is an API design pattern that encodes information about an object’s run-time state in its compile-time type . In particular, an API using the typestate pattern will have:
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Unintuitive JSON Parsing
Despite the goal of JSON being a subset of JavaScript — which it failed to achieve (update: this was fixed ) — parsing JSON is quite unlike parsing a programming language. For invalid inputs, the specific cause of error is often counter-intuitive. Normally this doesn’t matter, but I recently ran into a case where it…
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Linux doesn't have Photoshop
Linux doesn’t have Photoshop. One common rant I get to hear when I try to help someone to switch to Linux. It is almost 2020 and say what? people still agree with this statement.
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Write Junior Code
A plea to Haskellers everywhere.
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How I made a website with Svelte
Just like last year, I made a list of the best media I enjoyed over the year. This includes music, films, series and games.
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Ruby provides support for lazy loading enumerators, allowing efficient processing of large or infinite sequences.
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A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my findings. I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while now but it took a while to put my thoughts into a cohesive…
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Scaling React Server Side Rendering
I had the opportunity to work on scaling a React rendering service, adapting a fixed hardware provision to deal with increasing load. Over the course of many months, incremental improvements were made to the system to enable it to cope with demand. I thought it might be useful to share the more interesting insights…
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
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I love coding in C
For the first time in almost a year, I brushed up on my C fundamentals and built a few toy programs. As I played around with pointers and printed out a memory location, I experienced a literal chill down my spine. I had almost forgotten how marvelous programming in this language was.
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What Are the React Team Principles?
UI Before API.