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Many years ago, sometime in the nineties, my family was having dinner at the neighbours', and their son showed me some cool DOS programs on the computer. One of the programs was a demo that drew animated flames on the screen. I was amazed! Asking what language it was written in, I was told it was Pascal.
At a recent RubyConf, Chad Fowler presented his ideas for writing software systems that mirror the process of continual replacement observed in biological systems.
Update (04/26/2019): Third-party developers can now use this document to evaluate the impact of third-party blocking on their software. R...
Look at them! All smiling and happy. Coworkers, friends, and close family members. All enjoying programming in Perl 6 version 6.c "Christmas". Great concurrency primitives, core grammars,…
This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler:
In July 2016, I spent some time writing a GraphQL endpoint for an existing application in Go. I chose to implement the endpoint in Go based on prior experience, good concurrency support and the desire to have static type system. The GraphQL library for Go, graphql-go , worked pretty well, and I was able to build the…
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
If you grew up in the UK and went to school during the 1980’s or 1990’s there’s a good chance that this picture brings back fond memories:
The default tmux prefix key is Ctrl - b , for the remainder of this article, we will refer to the prefix key as prefix .
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. React 16.2 is now available! The biggest addition is improved support for returning multiple children from a component’s render method. We call this feature fragments: Fragments look like empty JSX tags. They let you group a list of…
Two weeks ago, we released Firefox Quantum to the world. It’s been a big moment for Mozilla, shaping up to be a blockbuster release that’s changing how peopl...
Members of our community have translated this blog post into several languages: Today we're releasing Kotlin 1.2. This is a major new release and a big step on our road towards enabling the use of
Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network at a particular application is often determined by a series of choices made at the start of the research, including what…
In early October I gave a keynote at Python Brasil in Belo Horizonte. Here is an aspirational and lightly edited transcript of the talk. There is …
You might have heard the term “smart contract,” and you might even know that they are “code” you can run on a blockchain.But how can you run code on a blockc...
My aim here is to test my understanding of Karpathy’s great blog post “Hacker’s guide to Neural Networks” as well as of Python, to get a hang of which I rece...
Yesterday the Pull Request 46115: "rustbuild: Enable WebAssembly backend by default" was merged into Rust master. With the Nightly build from that night, the wasm32-unknown-unknown target is natively available.
I did yet another study on 100 codebases, this time to see the effects of unit testing. The results surprised me, and I'm guessing they'll surprise you.
As some of you might know, I recently became enamoured with a new programming language, Carp. While you might have caught me fawning over it already, in…
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