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CCL: Categorical Configuration Language
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,862 posts.
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C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use
With this post I will concentrate on the here and now: how to use C’s future lifesaving defer feature with existing tools and compilers.
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Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
I retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real…
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Synthesizing Music from JSON
tl;dr: pl_synth is a tiny music synthesizer for C & JS and an editor (“tracker”) to create instruments and arrangements.
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The Future of Htmx
In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web…
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All clocks are 30 seconds late
OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor l...
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A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022)
The history of Italian software piracy from 1983 to 1993, retail shops & national distribution: how cracked games were sold as legitimate.
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Spline Distance Fields
Earlier this year I decided to put my main project Tangerine on hold indefinitely and began prototyping a new renderer in an unfamiliar language using a totally new graphics API with the goal of overcoming all of Tangerine's technical shortcomings. The new renderer is an eccentric CPU ray tracer called Star Machine…
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The latest fake literary agencies
Fake agencies mentioned in this post: The Elite Scout SocietyImplicitPress Literary AgencyJudith Carter LiteraryLiterary Agents AssociationMushens & Churchill Literary AgencyStory Arc Literary GroupsZenith Literary Not too long ago, I published a post with tips and techniques to help writers spot a fake literary…
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Parsing the C64 Bubble Bobble Wind Currents
This would be my website, I guess.
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LLMs and Code Optimization
Dave Andersen's (new) blog
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)
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The evolution of a structural code editor
This post outlines the evolution of the EYG editor. The major changes over time, design thoughts and some implementation notes.
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Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say “Ship the Roadmap.” What new information are they comm…
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Apple squandered the Holy Grail
Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect
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Printf debugging is ok
A balanced take on the printf vs debugger debate: why there is no single right answer, and how to choose the right debugging approach for the situation at hand.
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Fold-... and Monoids
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...
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Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi
Use the interactive map below to explore the latest global regulations enabling 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi.
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A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
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Writing a simple pool allocator in C
I found out about pool allocators some time ago, and I really liked its simplicity and high performance, so I decided to write my own. This article was initially inspired by Dmitry Soshnikov’s article . It’s also worth mentioning that this article was discussed in Hacker News .
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Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors. 1 The Pentium incl...
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.
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How Do You Like What You've Built?
Recently, a colleague asked me for a code review on some complex UI changes. The idea was to make an...
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A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis
A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again. As timeout errors flooded my terminal, something clicked. We’d been teaching AI to read code like a fresh bootcamp grad, not a senior developer. Here’s what I mean.
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