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Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them
And JavaScript has killed them.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
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Where did software go wrong? (2020)
Software is broken, but it's not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world.
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My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are great tools to make the lives of developers easier.
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A neat XOR trick
Looking over the solutions mega-thread , it seems like not many people discovered this trick; when I posted about it , people found it to be noteworthy.
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I found a bug in SQLite
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite. The SQLite team quickly addressed the issue but let's take a look at the…
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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Vector Animations with Python (2014)
I am a big fan of Dave Whyte’s vector animations, like this one: It was generated using a special animation language called Processing (here is Dave …
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New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors
Go 1.20, which is expected to be released in February 2023, comes with a small change that can possibly improve error handling in applications which heavily use …
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Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
What features would be in that spec? Partial page updates? Animated transitions? Layered interactions?
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Just use Postgres for everything
Replace Redis, MongoDB, Kafka & more with PostgreSQL. Reduce complexity, boost development speed. Complete guide with real examples.
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C23 Implications for C Libraries
The upcomming standard C23 has a lot of additions to the C library clause. Most of them are small, some of them are big but optional.
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Uxn is a virtual machine with 32 instructions
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Vite 4.0
Vite 4 Release Announcement
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All in with Nuitka
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
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Experiment: The costs of slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
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Delimiter-first code
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
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Introducing passkeys in Chrome
We announced in October that passkey support was available in Chrome Canary. Today, we are pleased to announce that passkey support is now ...
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Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even remotely helpful. WebAssembly ?!
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Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes
Understanding Google's Zanzibar paper the way the Authzed team does.
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Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
This is a guest blog post by Michiel Borkent.
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The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language
Preparing for the next major release, where Dart only supports sound null safety
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PHP 8.2
PHP 8.2 is a major update of the PHP language. Readonly classes, null, false, and true as stand-alone types, deprecated dynamic properties, performance improvements and more
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Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API
A blog about Java
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What's Great about Julia?
A post about all the things I find good about Julia.
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Go and SQLite in the Cloud
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
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Bun 0.3
Massive reduction in memory usage, faster text encoding, improved Jest compatibility, file-system routing, automatic package installs, and a lot more