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PyPy's New JSON Parser
Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...
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Clojure 1.11 planning
Tales of Developing Clojure
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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
Derek's Personal Portfolio/Blog
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Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly,
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Perl is dying
Some personal reflections about the evolution and death or programming languages. By the forces a circumstances, I had to reverse engineer and decommission a few Perl scripts in an old company earl…
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My application ran away and called home from Redmond
I recently found a surprising leak vector in Windows 10 installations. We were porting our Beacon to Windows and for easy deployment…
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Building a constraint programming solver in Julia
How to build a constraint programming solver in Julia. Part 1: Solving Sudoku using backtracking
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How Bash Completion Works
Ever wondered how Bash completion works? In this first article on the topic, we’ll look at how it works under the hood.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Chart.js
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to draw charts with Chart.js and how to customize them to suit our needs.
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Sqlite 3.30.0
This page provides a high-level summary of changes to SQLite. For more detail, see the Fossil checkin logs at https://sqlite.org/src/timeline and https://sqlite.org/src/timeline?t=release . See the chronology a succinct listing of releases.
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bliki: Strangler Fig
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
Many programmers are aware that C++ templates are Turing-complete, andthis was proved in the 2003 paper C++ Templates areTuring Complete.
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Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems
I wrote a couple of years ago about the troubles I had finding a good libc for embedded systems , and for the last year or so I've been using something I called 'newlib-nano', which was newlib with the stdio from avrlibc bolted on. That library has worked pretty well, and required very little work to ship.
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Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, an open-source library for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS-like styling.
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What Is Good About Haskell?
Update 5/10/2019: check the bottom of this post for some links to comments and discussion.
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Do you have a problem? Write a compiler
These are notes of the talk I gave at ClojuTre 2019 . There is a video recording of the talk , and the slide deck as a PDF .
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SpaCy v2.2
Version 2.2 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library is leaner, cleaner and even more user-friendly. In addition to new model packages and features for training, evaluation and serialization, we've made lots of bug fixes, improved debugging and error handling, and greatly reduced the size of the library on…
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A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
Some readers already know this and a few have suspected. I’ve been working on a new R6RS Scheme compiler for a while. Now I have released it as free software. Read on to learn the many wonderful drawbacks of this niche compiler.
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TypeScript 3.7 Beta
We're pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we'll be fixing bugs and
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go
The command line tool I created Sloc Cloc and Code (scc) (which is now modified and maintained by many other excellent people) counts lines of code, comments and makes a complexity estimate for files …
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Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts
Does this Go snippet compile, and if not, why?
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and maintainability . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it, because it "just works".
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Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
Once upon a time, Cisco, Ericsson, Klarna, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, WhatsApp, Amazon and many other top companies kept a secret. Erlang was that badly kept secret. Discover more on our blog.
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Event Modeling
Event Modeling is a way to design a blueprint for an Information System of any size or scale. It is done in a way that allows the clearest communication of the system's workings to the largest possible cross-section of roles in an organization. The system can be checked for completeness by following the single thread…