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Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
Which means, that to test it, we need some data for recursive queries. This time I took directory listing of my /etc, and loaded it to db:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,517 posts.
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The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
The functional programming analog of an object-oriented design pattern
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You don't really need a virtualenv
Frost Ming's personal blog
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Computer Graphics from Scratch
Behind the beautiful imagery of the latest animated movie and the realistic environments of popular videogames lie some mysterious algorithms. Computer Graphics from Scratch aims to demystify these algorithms and shows you that computer graphics can be surprisingly simple.
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Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)
Issue: March/April 2000 | PDF
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Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter
To streamline the productivity of the JFrog Platform we will be sunsetting Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter, and ChartCenter services on May 1st, 2021.
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Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels
Reading a blog post about what’s coming up in JDK 16 recently, I learned that one of the new features is support for Unix domain sockets (JEP 380). Before Java 16, you’d have to resort to 3rd party …
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Writing high performance F# code
While this post is addressed to F# .NET developers, it introduces much wider concepts starting from hardware architecture to overall .NET runtime and JIT compiler optimizations. It shouldn't be a surprise - optimizing the application performance requires us to understand the relationships between our high level code…
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Bad TypeScript Habits
TypeScript and JavaScript have steadily evolved over the last years, and some of the habits we built over the last decades have become obsolete. Some might never have been meaningful. Here's a list of 10 habits that we all should break.
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Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work in architecture roles alongside experienced software/technical/solution architects. Through observing others and my own trial and error,...
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Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Reinforcement Learning at Facebook
If you ever wanted to learn about machine learning you could do worse than have Jason Gauci teach you. Jason has worked on YouTube recommendations. He was an early contributor to TensorFlow the open-source machine learning platform. His thesis work was cited by DeepMind. But what I find so fascinating with Jason is he…
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Red Hat ported OpenJDK to 64-bit ARM: A community history
Find out how Red Hat engineers and a community of open source enthusiasts created the standard OpenJDK implementation for AArch64.
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Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too (except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never…
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F# is gaining independence from .NET
F# is a language that will make you sleep better
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NumPy 1.20
This NumPy release is the largest so made to date, some 684 PRs contributed by 184 people have been merged. See the list of highlights below for more details. The Python versions supported for this release are 3.7-3.9, support for Python 3.6 has been dropped. Highlights are
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Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness2021289 points343 commentsSoftware Engineering details
I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!
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Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013)
Cyclic dependencies: Part 1
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What's New in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 adds support for PHP enums, as well as readonly properties, Fibers, performance improvements, new in initializers, and more.
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Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019)
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Jul 7, 2024. 93 min read. Hey there, you’re reading an updated version of a post I published way back in 2019. Because of the 2024 Plotnine contest and the recent release of Polars 1.0, I decided to freshen things up. Changes include: Upgrade to Plotnine version 0.13.6 (from…
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What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
What am I running inside my bash?
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Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps
I’d like to share my experience of encountering Hotwire from the team at Basecamp which was extracted from the tooling used to build their…
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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.
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Fix Terminals
I want terminal keypresses to Just Work. What do I mean Just Work? I mean programs in a simple orthogonal way, can determine the key that was pressed, and this model should easily map to the user's expectation.
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OO in Python is mostly pointless
Note from 2025 me - I largely still agree with myself - and I still see the same crappy OO code getting pumped out. The final point in "Exceptions" is worth emphasising more.
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