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Defer available in gcc and clang
About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: A tec…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,423 posts.
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How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing
A false dichotomy that hides the real request
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I fixed Windows native development
Imagine you’re maintaining a native project. You use Visual Studio for building on Windows, so you do the responsible thing and list it as a dependency
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Vim 9.2
Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support.
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A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
Reverse-engineering the .car file format used by Apple's asset catalogs and how to parse it without Apple's proprietary tools
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Breaking the spell of vibe coding
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
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The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
the future of senior developers, junior developers, more on cognitive debt, DevEx versus AgentEx, the role of IDEs, consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
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Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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Visual introduction to PyTorch
An easy to follow, visual introduction to PyTorch.
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Across 16 coding models, hashline’s content-hash line anchors beat patch for 14 models; the weakest models gained the most.
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Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
Parsing a statistics textbook with Deepseek OCR on Modal
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Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.
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I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
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Redefining Go Functions
I once wrote a Perl subroutine that would memoize the subroutine that called it. That much was useful, but then it inserted a copy of itself into the caller, so that its callers would be memoized too. A well-placed call to aggressively_memoize could back-propagate to the whole codebase, spreading functional purity…
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Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get…
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What functional programmers get wrong about systems
Type systems verify properties of programs. Production correctness is a property of systems. The gap between these is where the interesting failures live.
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I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
One year minus one week ago to the day I published an article announcing the new Scheme implementation I was writing, scheme-rs . Today I am excited to announce that scheme-rs has reached its first version, 0.1.0 . You can check it out at it’s website ( scheme-rs.org , which should be updated to scheme.rs at some…
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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c
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gRPC: From service definition to wire format
A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
A Guide to comparing Claude Code Compiler with GCC
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The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
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Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
In the previous post , we watched the compiler transform optimized SSA into machine code bytes and package them into object files. Each .o file contains the compiled code for one package—complete with machine instructions, symbol definitions, and relocations marking addresses that need fixing. But your program isn’t…
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Bun v1.3.9
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.
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I am happier writing code by hand
I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code…
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OpenClaw is changing my life
I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work. Sure…
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Beyond agentic coding
AI dev tooling can do better than chat interfaces