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Yagni
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality.
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Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros
Screentendo is a desktop application that allows you to turn a selection of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros. I’ve never built a Cocoa app or used Sprite Kit before, so it was …
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What Comes After MVC
Rails apps start out quickly and beautifully, but after a year features are a struggle, tests are slow, developers are grinding, and stakeholders are unhappy. “Skinny controllers and fat models” ha...
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The responsibility we have as software engineers
I had the chance to chat this week with the very awesome Kate Heddleston who mentioned that she’s been thinking a lot about the ethics of being a software engineer, something she just spoke a…
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Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse
Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can be…
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PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted
PEP 3107 introduced syntax for function annotations, but the semantics were deliberately left undefined. There has now been enough 3rd party usage for static type analysis that the community would benefit from a standard vocabulary and baseline tools w...
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LLVM OpenMP Support
OpenMP support in Clang compiler is completed! Every pragma and clause from 3.1 version of the standard is supported in full, including combined directives (like ‘#pragma omp parallel for’ and ‘#pragma omp parallel sections’).
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Struct composition with Go
This is a quick Friday blog post to talk about a recent experience I had working on a piece Juju code that needed to capture the data being sent over a net.Conn .
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Signalfd is useless
UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways …
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We have a problem with promises
No, not with promises themselves. Promises, as defined by the A+ spec , are awesome.
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Learning C with gdb
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
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Atom's autocomplete just got better
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Wolfram Language
Transcript of Stephen Wolfram's talk at SXSW 2015 on the present and future of computing: Wolfram Language, image recognition, language-design philosophy, tweetable programs, computational thinking for kids, natural language as input, symbolic programming, deployment, automation of programming, Internet of Things…
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Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC?
A few weeks ago I’ve seen an interesting flock of tweets initiated by this question: This question and the tweets that followed put my brain on quite an animated discussion…
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Visual Rust 0.1 is out
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
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Error handling in Rust
Like most programming languages, Rust encourages the programmer to handle errors in a particular way. Generally speaking, error handling is divided into two broad categories: exceptions and return values. Rust opts for return values.
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ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]
I’m Chris McCord, a programmer with a passion for science and building things. I spend my time crafting the Phoenix Framework, working with …