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Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was fully assembled and ready to use with any display monitor. The version with 4K of memory cost $1298. It had color, graphics, sound, expansion slots, game paddles, and a built-in BASIC programming language.
In this post I’m going to do a silly, but interesting, exercise that should never be done in any program that actually matters. I’m going write a program that changes one of its function definitions while it’s actively running and using that function. Unlike last time , this won’t involve shared libraries, but it will…
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy. We are now thrilled to launch CockroachDB beta.
UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well ...
The default Windows command line experience is a little lacking. Let's supercharge it.
Immutable data structures – also known as persistent or purely functional data structures – are a key part of modern functional programming. Once created, immutable data structures cannot be modified. Instead, they support operations which efficiently produce a new copy of the structure with the desired changes…
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
Occasional writings about Haskell.
Bootstrap 4 and Foundation 6 are the latest versions of the most widely used CSS frameworks out there. Foundation 6 is stable whereas Bootstrap 4 hasn’t been released yet. However, before you wonder why I am comparing a stable framework version vs an alpha one, let me set the record straight by saying that Bootstrap 4…
Everything you need to know about HIPAA compliance, from the basics to infrastructure requirements to building with AI.
Create isolated project setups on all platforms, and gain a deep understanding of Python's virtual environments created with the venv module.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Here are some techniques to avoid the pain of having brittleness from legacy code.
Thread pools! How do I use them?
Interview with Matt Might, a professor, programming languages researcher, investigator of rare disease, and popular blogger.
ASDF , the de facto standard build system for Common Lisp, has been vastly improved between 2009 and 2014. These and other improvements finally bring Common Lisp up to par with "scripting languages" in terms of ease of writing and deploying portable code that can access and "glue" together functionality from the…
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
In light of recent events in the javascript community, I would like to share the story of how I came into control of more than 200 heavily…
Moving a big software project to a new compiler can be a lot of work, and few projects are bigger than Chromium. In addition to the main Chromium repository, which includes all of Blink, there are …
This article provides an overview of the test suites that are used by LLVM project to maintain a quality of its libraries and tools on a high level.
We deconstruct JSX to create a new general purpose programming tool.
I love regular expressions. No, I’m not sure you understand: I really love regular expressions. You may find it a little odd that a hack who grew up using a language with the ain’t keyword would fall so head over heels in love with something as obtuse and
