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Little languages are the future of programming
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
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Criticizing Computers
Do you ever get really mad at your computer?
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The Modern Observability Problem
The observability problem - Why is the system exhibiting this behaviour?
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IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
IRCv3 Development Community
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil , the Excalidraw font.
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Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Inside boost::unordered_flat_map
Introduction The case for open addressing SIMD-accelerated lookup boost::unordered_flat_map data structure Rehashing Hash post-mixing Sta...
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Improving code review time
Code reviews are one of the most important parts of the software development process At Meta we’ve recognized the need to make code reviews as fast as possible without sacrificing quality We’re sha…
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HTML is all you need to make a website
In a world full of JavaScript frameworks, SPAs, CSS animations, powerful devices and fast internet, HTML-only websites are controversial and divisive. But why?
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AI found a bug in my code
I wanted to see how a language model would analyze my existing code.
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Why is the terminal input so weird?
Learn about the technical architecture of the terminal that makes it very hard to implement rich – or even “normal” – editing features like you’d find in an IDE.
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SQLite Release 3.40.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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What’s so great about functional programming anyway?
To hear some people talk about functional programming, you’d think they’d joined some kind of cult. They prattle on about how it’s changed the way they think about code. They’ll extol the benefits of purity, at length. And proclaim that they are now able to “reason about their code”—as if all other code is irrational…
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Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client. Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world. ReviewStack is a demonstration code review UI for Gi…
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Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”
Etymology is fun!
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Optimizations can have unexpectedly large effects when combined with caches
This post is about a non-obvious interaction between performance optimizations and LRU/time limited caching.
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Making a Go program faster with a one-character change
Harry Marr — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Co-founded Dependabot, previously at GitHub, Monzo, and GoCardless.
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Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules
Deno 1.28 ships with stabilized npm modules, auto-discovered lock file, a new subprocess API, and more
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Rust and C++ Interoperability
In this blog post, I want to explore both directions of integration between Rust and C++ and present some tools we use in Slint.
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Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Build the Modular Monolith First
Even talking about building a monolith today, is a bit taboo. It is all about microservices at the moment, and has been for a few years. But they aren’t a silver bullet…
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Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
Implementing the execution functionality of the shell
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Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer
Trying out the Rust programming ecosystem as a 10+ years Python developer. How to do common programming tasks and how the tooling looks like.
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Why does zsh start so slowly?
I’m serious about shell startup speed. I use tmux to open and close tmux splits all day every day, so I need zsh to start quickly. I used to use frameworks like oh-my-zsh or prezto and while I was happy with the functionality they provided I wasn’t happy with their impact on my shell’s startup speed. So, what do we do…
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Bevy 0.9: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 159 contributors, 430 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.9 release on crates.io…
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#lang Lua
I'm currently working on a macOS app that's built with Racket and allows the user to write small scripts to process and filter some data. While Racket is definitely my preferred language and I could easily use it for these scripts, my target audience for this app would probably appreciate a more familiar language. I…
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Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days
A debugging story about a mysterious C# gzip decompression exception and what actually caused it, with investigation steps and lessons learned.