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We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
Introducing Qdrant Summer of Code 2024 program. GSoC alternative.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,535 posts.
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Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga
The Amiga was a spectacle of graphics and sound when it debuted in 1985. While it can trivially display colorful images like in the above example, doing so in the context of a game engine presents a lot of unique challenges.
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V Language Review (2023)
Review about V programming language in 2023
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Neat Parallel Output in Python
Make parallel tasks print nicely with zero dependencies.
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How to think about software quality (2022)
Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.
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Please make your table headings sticky
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll…
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The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking
Explore five methods of data change tracking in PostgreSQL available in 2024.
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing
Algebraic Effects are a useful abstraction for reasoning about effectful programs by letting us leave the interpretation of these effects to callers. However, most existing literature discusses these in the context of a pure functional language with pervasive sharing of values. What restrictions would we need to…
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Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Alejandra González (a.k.a @blyxyas) that seeks to compress a tic-tac-toe game state into as few bits as possible. She arrived at a solution in 18 bits. This got me thinking, can we do better?
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Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
Updated (2014-10-24): If you find this article interesting, you may be interested in the follow-up article on an editor for composed programs .
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Remix Vite Is Now Stable
Support for Vite is now stable in Remix v2.7.
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
This is a tutorial series to help you set up the Vim or Neovim text editors for efficiently writing math in LaTeX. Here is an example of what I have in mind:
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APL at Volvo
Hercules is a system used by the Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo) for planning car production. Its main output is the monthly Master Production Schedule (MPS) – a detailed plan on how many cars are to be produced per market, factory and week during the following 13-15 months. Migrating such a comprehensive and vital…
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A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)
For programmers new to cryptography, there are plenty of “known unknowns” – unfamiliar terms like “elliptic curves” and “random oracles”, and unnecessarily long acronyms (“RSASSA-PKCS-v1_5”, like really?). But what really gives cryptography its reputation is the unknown unknowns. The things that catch even experienced…
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Planner programming blows my mind
Picat is a research language intended to combine logic programming, imperative programming, and constraint solving. I originally learned it to help with vacation scheduling but soon discovered its planner module, which is one of the most fascinating programming models I’ve ever seen. First, a brief explanation of…
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Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space
Overview I’ve decided to start a series of blog posts to cover some details about scx_rustland , my little Linux scheduler written in Rust ...
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In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers 1 whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers. In keeping with this, our architecture is a standard CRUD app architecture, a Python monolith on top of Postgres. Starting with a simple architecture and solving problems in simple ways where possible has allowed…
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Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly
Using the Overpass API to read OSM data, parsing the data with Rust, and then drawing the map onto HTML5 canvas.
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A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters
A visual, interactive guide to what bloom filters are, when you would use them, and how they work.
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