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Postgres tips for the average and power user
A collection of power user tips for those working with Postgres
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Some things that might help you make better software (2016)
Assuming you're in the unusual position of actually having budget for quality, here's what to spend it on.
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A tiny language called Z (2013)
A tiny, strict, impure, curried, dynamically typed (although that may change), partially applied language with rather peculiar syntax.
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
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How we send 22k emails every hour
Our app sends and receives about 22,000 (22 thousand) emails per hour. That's more than half a million emails every day and it sometimes peaks to 25-30 emails EVERY SECOND
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How I Side Project
This post started out as a long-form response to this tweet by Raj Kunkolienkar:
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Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)
I had been programming in Fortran and assembler for a number of years when I got my first personal computer. It was exciting. On the first generation PC one had to toggle in a paper tape loader from front panel switches, byte by byte, then start the paper tape reader and then one could output to the led on the front…
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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Ma…
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Comparisons in C++20
Now that the Cologne meeting is over and we’ve more or less finalized (at least before the NB comments come in) C++20, I wanted to take the time to describe in detail one of the new language features we can look forward to. The feature is typically referred to as operator<=> (defined in the language as “three-way…
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Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)
Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas . The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything - or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the…
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Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
I’m a software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests include getting computers to behave, helping other people get computers to behave, open source, maths, and music.
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On Writing a C++ Book
On writing a technical book for experienced programmers.
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Explore Qt Demos: Interactive Examples for Your Next Project
Explore interactive Qt demos that showcase the power of Qt’s cross-platform tools—ideal for developers seeking real-world applications to boost their projects.
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PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM
Hello everyone. We are pleased to announce the availability of the new PyPy for AArch64. This port brings PyPy's high-performance just-in...
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Perils of Constructors
One of my favorite blog posts about Rust is Things Rust Shipped Without by Graydon Hoare. To me, footguns that don't exist in a language are usually more important than expressiveness. In this slightly philosophical essay, I want to tell about a missing Rust feature I especially like: constructors.
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SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
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MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
MQTT is a pub/sub network protocol especially built to enable efficient communication to and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks
A simple walkthrough of what RNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.
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Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection. Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
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The Rust compiler is still getting faster
A key theme of the Rust 2019 roadmap is maturity . This covers a variety of topics, but a crucial one is compile times. For example, the roadmap itself has the following as the first main theme for the compiler team.
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Fast Software, the Best Software
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
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Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter
Yaegi, Yet Another Go Interpreter, is an open source project to bring executableGo scripts, embedded plugins on top of the Go runtime...
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How we built the Waifu Vending Machine
On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store
The PingCAP company, makers of the TiDB NewSQL database and the TiKV key-value store, have kindly made publicly available, as well as open-sourced, a set of training courses that they call the "PingCAP Talent Plan". These courses train programmers in writing distributed systems in the Go and Rust languages. They are…
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Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....
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I'm writing a book about algorithms and Lisp
Drago — a nice example of a real-world binary tree This was the first post about my book on algorithms and Lisp. Writing it, actually, st...
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Files Are Fraught with Peril
This is a psuedo-transcript for a talk given at Deconstruct 2019. To make this accessible for people on slow connections as well as people using screen readers, the slides have been replaced by in-line text (the talk has ~120 slides; at an average of 20 kB per slide, that's 2.4 MB. If you think that's trivial…
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PEG Parsers
Some years ago someone asked whether it would make sense to switch Python to a PEG parser. (Or a PEG grammar; I don’t recall exactly what…