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Unicode is harder than you think
Rants, experiments and experiences collected while delving into the magical world of computers.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,824 posts.
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Rust for Professionals
This is a short introduction to Rust, intended for developers that already know another language. In the examples, Rust is compared with TypeScript, JavaScript or Java, sometimes with C++ or Kotlin.
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Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default
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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Should you split that file?
Splitting code into files can scatter related logic. Jimmy Koppel on cognitive load, design reconstruction, and a third way to organize code.
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I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
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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When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98
I’ve covered PC compatibility in the past, and tried to explain how just having an x86 CPU and running DOS does not necessarily make your machine compatible with an IBM PC. At the time, this …
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The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outs...
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Finding services companies via their TXT records
How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
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How to build trust as a new engineering manager
New managers often want to get everything right from the get-go. But, ironically, that would be their first mistake. Why? Because that's the total opposite of authenticity.
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Stratechery Year in Review
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.
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When to Shut Up: A Visual Guide (With Included Algorithm)
Use these rules to avoid boring your audience
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4D Toys Update 8: Rotating the 3D Slice, 2D Faces Projections, Marble Scenes
This is a Mega-Update ®™ that focuses on features that people have been requesting for a long time. I have a ton of stuff in Miegakure that could be shared with 4D Toys but what takes development time is not the cool 4D stuff but all the UI/UX around it. First of all because there is the VR version, the mouse/keyboard…
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RISC-V Business: Testing StarFive's VisionFive 2 SBC
It's risky business fighting Intel, AMD, and Arm, and that's exactly what Star Five is trying to do with this: The chip on this new single board computer could be the start of a computing revolution—at least that's what some people think! The VisionFive 2 has a JH7110 SoC on it, sporting a new Instruction Set…
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Shader Park Is Kinda Neat
Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak
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Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022)
Software engineer, artist and musician
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Open source supply chain security at Google [video]
I was a remote opening keynote speaker at ACM SCORED 2023 , which we decided meant that I sent a video to play and I was on Discord during the talk for attendees to text directly with question as the video played, and then we did some live but still remote Q&A after the talk.
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Homelab analog telephone exchange
An introduction to my MCU based fully featured analog telephone exchange, how I mounted it in my home lab powered with batteries for months of use
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Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags
Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods
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What Vale taught me about linear types, borrowing, and memory safety
I've had some pretty surreal experiences while making Vale. 0 The weirdest was when I realized the hidden fundamental truth beneath a lot of the programming languages we use today.
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My diatribe against “skeptics” (2016)
April 10, 2023. The backlash was immediate after I spoke at the 2016 Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism , which bills itself as a “celebration of science and critical thinking.” Although the conference had allotted me 10 minutes for questions, the stage manager, Jamy
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The Case for Bash (2021)
Bash is oft-maligned: you hear it sneered at in sentences like “our continuous integration pipeline is just a pile of bash scripts .” It is commonly regarded as unintelligible and thus unmaintainable. The pile of bash scripts are the toxic byproduct of an infrastructure team understaffed, pressed for time, unwilling…
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Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?
No, but they’re probably good for you.
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What’s wrong with billable hours
I know a bunch of you already have your pitchforks out, so let me start out by establishing some goalposts for my premise. When I’m done, you may still want to skewer me, but at least it’ll be for the right reasons, if you do. Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw...
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AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties advocacy group, recently published a good article entitled “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.” 1 It argues that providers within the internet “stack” should refrain from censoring traffic according to their own values. That…
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HashiCorp did it backwards
Hashicorp recently announced they’re changing the license of Terraform to a source-available license, BSL1.1.
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Beyond Markdown (2018)
John MacFarlane
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Cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C
Following up from the last post, there is a lot more we need to cover. This was intended to be the post where we talk exclusively about benchmarks and numbers. But, I have unfortunately been perfectly taunted and status-locked,
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Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)
With gptcommit, you no longer have to spend time writing your commit messages. Install gptcommit and let GPT-3 do the writing for you.
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How I ruined my SEO
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened?