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Clubhouse clones are coming
One thing is for sure: tech companies are willing to fill the “live audio seats” as soon as possible.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,497 posts.
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Swift on the Server (2020)
Why choose Swift as a backend language in 2020? What are the available frameworks to build your server? Let me guide you.
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Epic corporate jargon alternatives
I’m working on a list of corporate jargon alternatives. There are already plenty of resources telling you what you should be saying instead, such as “soon” for “ASAP” or “waiting” for “holding pattern” and the like. But they usually lack that flair of ostentation we have come to be accustomed to. Therefore, I had the…
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Camembert President
LA CAMPAGNE NUMERO DEUX : Why do we, French people, care so much about the presidential election — and why it all goes back to cheese.
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Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?
Do we need to measure complexity? With what metrics? What benefits can it brings? This is the questions we'll answer in this article.
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Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)
While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I’ve had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of …
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Monorepos and Forced Migrations
Monorepos and Forced Migrations By most metrics, Google is a great place to work. Top tier compensation, free food, and largely co-workers who want do...
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A look at power on the new M1 Max
The ramblings and experiments of a software engineer and tech enthusiast based in Dublin.
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A rough proposal for sum types in Go (2018)
Sum types are pretty cool. Just like how a struct is basically “This contains one of these and one of these”, a sum type is “This contains one of …
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Can Apple change ads?
20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.
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JVM Anatomy Quark #26: Identity Hash Code
"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other.
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Passwordless Logins with Yubikey
Yubikey is currently the de facto device for U2F authentication. It enables adding an extra layer of security on top of SSH, system login, signing GPG keys,...
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Some Thoughts on Smart Canes
over the last few years, many attempts have been made at creating a smart cane. None of them have successfully lead to a market transforming technology that's actually used by any substantial users. I
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Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content
Canada's government is poised to pass a "harmful content" regulation. It's a worst-in-class mutation of a dangerous idea that's swept the globe, in which governments demand that hamfisted tech giants remove broad categories of speech – too swiftly for meaningful analysis.
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The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2 (2015)
Thirty years after its launch in 1987, a CM-2 was acquired by MoMA NY. It is only on display in selected shows - its inaugural exhibit was in " Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989"
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Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
Let me share a useful insight with you: constexpr is a platform. Just like you write code that targets Windows or a microcontroller, you write code that targets compile-time execution. In both cases you restrict yourself to the subset of C++ that works on your target platform, use conditional compilation if your code…
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Building a Desktop Application for Datasette
This week I started experimenting with a desktop application version of Datasette—with the goal of providing people who aren’t comfortable with the command-line the ability to get Datasette up and …
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Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6
A post describing a simple example how you can create your own manual error recovery solution based on what is used in RAID-6, in Python.
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Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
In the middle of a conflict, good analysis is hard to come by. Because adversaries do not telegraph their plans to one another, plans depend greatly on the fact patterns surrounding their execution…
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An early look at VLC 4.0
Early review of VLC 4.0 Nightly build, focusing on the new and redesigned interface, including tons of problems like bad ergonomics, low font contrast, decreased workflow efficiency, reduced responsiveness, no quick access to local filesystems, video playback in a separate window, and more
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Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)
The conventional view of Software Testing The hardware and software worlds may seem poles apart, and in many ways, they indeed are. But there’s a wealth of knowledge that each can learn from the ot…
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Progress Beats Perfect
This is a favorite saying of mine. I use it to motivate myself when I feel disheartened about how much I have to learn and improve. If I do ...
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Writing Python Extensions in Assembly
A deep-dive technical overview of how you can write CPython extensions in assembly (with a bonus tutorial on assembly programming)
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Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust
Dmitry Kudryavtsev is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and a tech entrepreneur creating sustainable online business.
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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
A meditation on reading, exploring what it means to read and whether it's a path to acquire wisdom.
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Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS
Looking to run Postgres on ZFS? I've gathered some of the information and sage advice out there to give you a head start on figuring out how to do it safely and efficiently.
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Dynamic Queries in Ecto (Elixir Lang)
The macro Ecto Query dynamic/2 allows you to build query fragments and interpolate them into one large query. We get easy-to-manage query building in an accessible way. It allows you to control the parameters from the user and transparently create filtering of data stored in the database.