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Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems
A deep dive into the complexities of optimizing code for SIMD instruction sets across multiple platforms.
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DELETEs Are Difficult
Why are database DELETEs complex and inefficient? Uncover challenges from physical data removal to autovacuum, and find strategies for managing large deletions.
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How I configure my Git identities
This may be overkill, but it works on my machine
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RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
Date: March 7, 2111
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Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out
This blog post summarises a new garbage collection algorithm called Mark-Scavenge, which highlights how using reachability as a proxy for liveness in moving GCs leads to unnecessary data movement and how we can address this. This work is from the latest paper within the research collaboration between Oracle and…
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A career-ending mistake
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
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Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
Mac's Tech Blog
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SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)
Tap, Click, Launch
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Don’t look down on print debugging
Print good, not bad!
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Baby’s Second Garbage Collector
This blog post is meant to an iteration on the tutorial and introduction to garbage collection implementation presented in this classic blog post . We are still working with simple garbage collectors, but this time another one with a bit more complexity.
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Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
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From string to AST: parsing (2019)
Whether you have to do with data in the form of CSV, JSON or a full-blooded programming language like C, JavaScript, Scala, or maybe a query language like SQL, you always transform some sequence of characters (or binary values) into a structured representation. Whatever you’ll do with that representation depends on…
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TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash
I ran across two surprising sources of code execution in bash (and probably other shells) recently.
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)
Low level software usually has lots of .cc or .rs files. Even lower-level software, like your cryptography library, probably has .S containing assembly, my least favorite language for code review.
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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
To celebrate ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, the original FORTH source code has been open sourced! Learn about the game's history and source code
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Code Conversion Language (2019)
Update : I forgot that I did a brief analysis on this many years ago, using ROT13 as example.
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PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Hyrum’s Law in Golang
Occurrence of Hyrum's law in Golang
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Building Databases over a Weekend
In this post we take you on a walkthrough on how you can use DataFusion to build your own developer experience for databases.
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/usr/bin/env -S uv run
This is a really neat pattern. Start your Python script like this: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "flask==3.*", # …
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GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released
The first product-level modern Web framework of Scheme programming language.
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Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for…
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Lush: My favorite small programming language
I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind of faded out of my consciousness, as it was a lot easier to get work doing stuff in R or Matlab or whatever. The guy…
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Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm
BM25 is a widely used algorithm for full text search. I wanted to understand how it works, so here is my attempt at understanding by re-explaining.
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Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
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Using Erlang hot code updates
One of the Erlang ecosystem's spiciest nerd snipes are hot code updates. Because it can do it. In ways that almost no other runtime can. I use Elixir which builds on Erlang and has the same capabilities.
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FLTK 1.4 Released
Update (Nov. 18, 2024): FLTK 1.4.0-1 is a minor update that fixes a build error of a single test program (test/fltk-versions.cxx) on Windows (Visual Studio only). The FLTK library is not affected. End of Update
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Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. You said that “SSA is an overkill” and “it’s just way too much infrastructure to maintain for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of…
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OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016)
OCaml's let … = … in … is very confusing. When nested, you can't tell how it's nested.