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Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine
Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the separate question of communication among threads) which is being…
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Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment. But as I read the opening sections of Moore's book Programming a…
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Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow
Posted by Asim Shankar and Wolff Dobson, Google Brain Team UPDATE, April 3 2018: Please see the official user guide for more up-to-date code examp...
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An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling
Language models assign probability values to sequences of words. Those three words that appear right above your keyboard on your phone that try to predict the next word you’ll type are one of the uses of language modeling. In the case shown below, the language model is predicting that “from”, “on” and “it” have a high…
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Why TDD isn't crap
After my recent vitriol about unit testing, a couple of people sent me Why TDD is Crap as a thorough debunking of TDD and unit testing. As someone very interested in software correctness, I ended up writing a debunking of his debunking. Transcriptions will be in quotes, my responses below. Some important notes: From…
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Racket v6.11
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.11 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ A bug preventing OneDrive users on Windows 10 Fall Creators update from opening files has been fixed. Typed Racket supports refinement types and depe...
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Implementing VisiCalc (2003)
I'm writing this in preparation for the Computer History Museum's The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc panel on April 8th 2003. This is basically a draft and I hope to do some more editing as time permits and you should expect many typos until then. I'm also going to continue to edit and change this as I remember…
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Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView
Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch squeaks, ours has manifested in ways rather more grim: inexplicably failing to render content, reloading during common operations, and error screens that aren’t actionable. The only silver lining has been…
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How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS
I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS.
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Crafting Interpreters: Classes
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
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Language Models, Word2Vec, and Efficient Softmax Approximations
The Word2Vec model has become a standard method for representing words as dense vectors. This is typically done as a preprocessing step, after which the learned vectors are fed into a discriminative model (typically an RNN) to generate predictions such as movie review sentiment, do machine translation, or even…
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Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
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Crystal in Production: Diploid
At Diploid, we have been using Crystal for quite some time now. We would like to share our experience in this interview, answering questions relevant to companies wanting to use Crystal for production.
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Reason 3
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
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Implementing Stripe-Like Idempotency Keys in Postgres
Building resilient services by identifying foreign state mutations and grouping local changes into restartable atomic phases so that every request can be driven to completion.
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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
[Guillermo Rauch](https://x.com/rauchg) [tweeted](https://x.com/rauchg/status/807626710350839808) this a while back. Let's take a dive into what it means.
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High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language
Julia is a high-level programming language for mathematical computing that is as easy to use as Python, but as fast as C. The language has been created with performance in mind…
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The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (2014)
Here follows the original "manifesto" from late 2014 proposing the idea for what became Upspin . The text has been lightly edited to remove...
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TwilioQuest, a new way to learn Twilio
TwilioQuest is a fun, self-directed way to quickly learn how to use Twilio. The game teaches our cloud communications APIs while rewarding loot and XP.
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Apollo Client 2.0
Apollo Client is the ultra-flexible, community-driven GraphQL client for React, Vue.js, Angular, and other JavaScript platforms. You just describe your data requirements with a GraphQL query, and Apollo Client fetches and manages the data for you.