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Htmx Is the Future
Chris James, London - Software Engineer
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Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code
LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level…
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Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
We'll create and load a snapshot of our custom JavaScript runtime to optimize startup time.
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RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
[LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread]
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Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
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JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
Reduce the size of object headers in the HotSpot JVM from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. This will reduce heap size, improve deployment density, and increase data locality.
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Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates
Explore how the Deno runtime can enable JavaScript code execution in a Rust application via a proof-of-concept project called "js-in-rs". Discover the flexibility and versatility of using JavaScript expressions as filters in a CLI, written in Rust, as a powerful alternative to regular expressions. Watch out grep!
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New C features in GCC 13
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.
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A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
I recently implemented a Brainfuck interpreter in the Crystal programming language and I’d like to share my honest opinion about working in the language.
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
img {border-style: groove; border-width: 1px;} I love Autohotkey so much that it keeps me on Windows. It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. Here’s a shortcut that opens my current browser tab in the Wayback Machine: #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") >!^s:: { Keywait("RControl") Keywait("RAlt")…
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Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
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New in Chrome 113
Chrome 113 is rolling out now! WebGPU is here, it allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web, devtools can now override network response headers, First Party Sets, part of the Privacy Sandbox, that allows organizations to declare related sites is starting to roll out, and there's…
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Driving Compilers
I remember how pleasant it was to learn to program in C. There were so many good books explaining not only the language but also the standard library. I devoured both The C Programming Language (K&R) by Kernighan/Ritchie and The Standard C Library by P.J. Plauger. Then came Expert C Programming by Van der Linden and…
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Temporal .NET – Deterministic Workflow Authoring in .NET
A high-level overview of Temporal's new .NET runtime, and some interesting challenges encountered during its development.
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How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
After many years of development, the Vale compiler just hit its 100,000th line of code.
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JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
ES modules are a modern way to include and reuse JavaScript code in web applications. They are supported by modern browsers and provide several benefits over older, non-modular approaches to JavaScript development.
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Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases?
“lex and yacc” are two terms that are used together so often that they can seem indivisible. lex takes a string as input and divides it up into lexemes (roughly speaking “words”) and yacc takes a sequence of lexemes and parses them. Since some parsing approaches such as recursive descent parsing unify these phases…
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Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of ...
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SIMD with Zig
An introduction to using SIMD with Zig
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My favorite C compiler flags during development
The major compilers have an enormous number of knobs . Most are highly specialized, but others are generally useful even if uncommon. For warnings, the venerable -Wall -Wextra is a good start, but circumstances improve by tweaking this warning set. This article covers high-hitting development-time options in GCC…
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Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...
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Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming
Deno 1.33 is a step towards our next major release, with improved LSP support, enhanced Node.js compatibility, and more.
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There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
There's more than one way to write an IP address: decimal, hex, octal, overflowed octets and omitted zeroes all resolve to the same host. A fun trick to mess …
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GameBox is a programmable, turn-based, WebAssembly game platform
Let's make some games
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Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
The Clojure team is proud to introduce Morse, a graphical, interactive tool for browsing and inspecting Clojure data, evolved from REBL . Morse is open source, licensed under the Apache license.
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Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
We generally know that when we buy a piece of technology that it will not last forever, connectors wear out and/or go out of fashion. But I think the most frustrating reason to have to get rid of something is that drivers stop being made for devices.