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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,819 posts.
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How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression
We rolled out Go 1.24 and saw a memory regression. Here’s how we dug into system metrics, uncovered a bug in the runtime allocator, and worked with the Go team to help fix it.
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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
Hatching... Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almo...
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.
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Zig's New Writer
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Parsing Protobuf like never before
Historically I have worked on many projects related to high-performance Protobuf, be that on the C++ runtime, on the Rust runtime, or on integrating UPB , the fastest Protobuf runtime, written by my colleague Josh Haberman . I generally don’t post directly about my current job, but my most recent toy-turned-product is…
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Gaslight-driven development
Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like
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Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
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PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations
We have prohibited new registrations of accounts using inbox.ru email domains.
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I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoying called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. So I wondered, how does vibe coding work with BASIC?
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I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
I’ve started writing more Python code lately (because of… AI, you know). In this post, I share the tools, libraries, configs, and other integrations I use for building production-grade Python applications following a frontend-backend architecture.
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Helix Editor 25.07
A post-modern modal text editor.
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Claude Code Unleashed
ymichael's personal site
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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a
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A Rust shaped hole
Without writing a single line of Rust, why I feel it might be right
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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
tazjin's blog
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Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically presumed to process context uniformly—that is, the model should handle the 10,000th token just as reliably as the 100th. However, in practice, this assumption does not hold. We observe that model performance varies significantly as input length changes, even on simple tasks…
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Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows
Learn how to extend the classic XOR trick to find thousands of missing values using Invertible Bloom Filters
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Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines
A deep dive into Rails engines through Active Storage Dashboard: structure, isolation, routes, assets and testing. Learn to build modular Rails apps.
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Strategies for Fast Lexers
Making compilation pipelines fast, starting with the tokenizer
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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
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How I build software quickly
Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days (2024)
Spoiler : it is also likely already the best BZip2 encoder for a given block size. See the green charts below. Note for subscribers: if you...
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Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
The way I was taught x86 assembly at the university had been completely outdated for many years by the time I had my first class. It was around 2008 or 2009, and 64-bit processors had already started becoming a thing even in my neck of the woods. Meanwhile, we were doing DOS, real-mode, memory segmentation and all the…
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Happy 20th Birthday, Django
Posted by Thibaud Colas & Benjamin Balder Bach on July 13, 2025
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Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI
| Learn how to implement OpenAI-style tool calling — from raw REST to elegant Spring AI annotations. Includes real code, diagrams, and…
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Hacking Coroutines into C
A while ago, I was part of a team developing embedded software. The software was deeply rooted in state machines - dozens of them—spread across multiple functions. While this architecture is common in embedded development, especially for systems without an operating system, I started to question: Is this really the…
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Zig's New Async I/O
Asynchrony is not concurrency.
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Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
The third edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is now available for purchase or to read for free online . It has updated content and several new chapters, but one chapter that was left on the cutting room floor was "Working with Audio, Video, and Webcams" . I present the 26-page rough draft chapter in this…
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The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)
A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: