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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
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Special Cases Are a Code Smell
Eliminate secrets sprawl and automate credential rotation across hybrid and multicloud environments with centralized, enterprise-grade secrets management.
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Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open
What languages do you want to work with next year? Are you more productive in an office or working from home? When did you write your first line of code? We want to hear from you in our annual developer survey ! The survey, now in its ninth year, launches today and anyone who codes is encouraged to participate. Take…
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Fearless Security: Memory Safety
Memory safety violations can cause programs to crash unexpectedly and can be exploited to alter intended behavior--languages can manage this multiple ways
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Our Software Dependency Problem
For decades, discussion of software reuse was far more common than actual software reuse. Today, the situation is reversed: developers reuse software written by others every day, in the form of software dependencies, and the situation goes mostly unexamined.
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DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations
DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations...
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Let’s stop copying C (2016)
Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of…
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Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab
Here's our CEO on GitLab’s inception using Rails, and how challenges are being handled along the way.
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
The network stack does several seemingly-impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infrastructure…
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For the Love of Pipes
Why unix pipes are awesome.
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
I saw this question on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange: What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? The question was closed as opinion-based, and most of the answers were things like “its too expensive!!!” or “website isn’t airplane!!!” These are sorta kinda true but don’t explain…
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Every new web app at PayPal starts with TypeScript
What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-scripts for.
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JavaScript iterator patterns
This article explores different ways to create iterators and iterable values in Javascript for dynamic sequence generation, specifically using functions, iterators, iterables and generators. It provides code examples for implementing the Fibonacci sequence with each approach.
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Kubernetes Failure Stories
I started to compile a list of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes. It should make it easier for people tasked with operations to find outage reports to learn from. Since we started w
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Inside the C Standard Library
After diving into the C language through K&R, and then studying portability (see C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines ), my next challenge was to take a systematic look at the standard library. To do this I worked through P. J. Plauger’s book The Standard C Library (ISBN 978-0131315099) where he examines an…
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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would empower a huge user community to do more. One of…
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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
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Future of TypeScript on ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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Is C++ fast?
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Introduction to TLA+ Model Checking in the Command Line
Otherwise known as “wait, you mean I can use the TLA toolbox from the command line?”
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