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You sometimes feel the need to make all of your integers positive, without losing any information. That is, you want to map all of your integers from 'signed' integers (e.g., -1, 1, 3, -3) to 'unsigned integers' (e.g., 3,2,6,7). This could be useful if you have a fast function to compress integers that fails to ……
I occasionally do talks about curl. In these talks I often include a few slides that say something abut curl's coverage and presence on different platforms. Mostly to boast of course, but also to help explain to the audience how curl has manged to reach its ten billion installations. This is current incarnation of…
Hello, engineers! I'm a newer face at Wube and have been mainly working on expansion content for about one year now. Today, I'm here to share some exciting non-expansion news for our Mac players.
Recently I gave a guest lecture in a graduate level software engineering course on the value of technical writing for software engineers. This post is a sort of rough transcript of my talk. I live-…
The code formatting and typography is frequent, controversial but probably unavoidable topic among programmers. This document contains some representative and possibly, relevant examples of the Lisp code.
While browsing twitter, I came across this tweet:
In this post, we analyze a malicious PyPI package attempting to backdoor FastAPI applications.
For the past several weeks, I've been trying to fix a cranky spec in Karafka integrations suite, which in the end, lead me to become a Ruby on Rails micro-contributor and submitting similar fix to several other high-popularity projects from the Ruby ecosystem. Here's my story of trying to make sense of my specs and […]
Today we are very excited to launch Wasmer 3.0, following three months of work since our first alpha. So, what’s new in Wasmer? - `wasmer` is now able...
In this series of blogposts, I will document my experience of porting the game that I am currently working on to the jai programming language. It’s currently written in mostly D and some C++ and comes in at exactly 58,620 lines of code (excluding libraries). I’ve planned on doing this for a long time and want to keep…
Falling out of love with warp Back when I wrote this codebase, warp was the best / only alternative for something relatively high-level on top of hyper. I was never super fond of warp’s model — it’...
PhD student in Photophysics
Abstract TL/DR I present what I belive is a unique index for indexing and searching source code. It copies ideas from Bing bitfunnel implementation to create a very fast, memory efficient trigram …
With my iPad having replaced my MacBook, the last thing I was missing was Emacs , which I not only enjoy hacking on, but is also how update my blog and resume! Let’s just say that it’s an integral tool in my life which I wanted access to, and I managed to make it happen.
An under-appreciated Rust feature
Announcing the GHC WebAssembly backend – present and future
This is Part 1 of a series of posts. Part 2 is available here: Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically It is well-known that writing a good VM for a dynamic language is never an easy job. High
We developed a new static analysis tool called Nullsafe that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code. Interoperability with legacy code and gradual deployment model…
Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.
Hanami 2.0 opens a new chapter for the Ruby community.
“Hey, you. Yes you, that function over there. When you’re cleaning up please remember to restore all of my registers. Yes, that one too – what do you think this is, Linux?”That’s the problem I was …
One of the things that I like to do in my projects, is to make the git history as linear as possible.
tldr: we stick to C89 for now. The curl project builds on foundations that started in late 1996 with the tool named httpget. ANSI C became known as C89 In 1996 there were not too many good alternatives for making a small and efficient command line tool for doing Internet transfers. I am not saying … Continue reading…
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If you need an unguessable random string (for a session cookie or access token, for example), it can be tempting to reach for a random UUID, which looks like this: 88cf3e49-e28e-4c0e-b95f-6a68a785a…
At Arduino we like to experiment with new technologies to figure out if we can use them to improve the tools we make for our users. We’ve recently been
CRDTs are a family of data structures that are designed to be replicated across multiple computers without needing to worry about conflicts when people write data to the same place.
So recently a very hyped memory corruption security vulnerability was discovered in the OpenSSL punycode parser. Some folks including Hanno ...
