Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,540 posts.
There are several reasons why one should prefer L A T E X to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them (not to mention that L A T E X is free ). There is still a further reason that definitely convinced me to abandon MS Word when I wrote my dissertation: you…
An alternative way to do web based apps on macOS and iOS without Electron
For the last few years I’ve been trying to center my work around creating what I consider to be the Perfect Commit. This is a single commit that contains all …
I posted curl is C a few days ago and it raced on hacker news, reddit and elsewhere and got well over a thousand comments in those forums alone. The blog post has been read more than 130,000 times so far. Addendum a few days later Many commenters of my curl is C post struck … Continue reading Yes C is unsafe, but… →
Using TypeScript and some DMV API digging, I chased down and claimed one of the rarest available license plate combinations.
I restricted the use of dicts in my code to make it easier to follow and maintain. Here's my explanation of the benefits and advice on what you can use instead. Bonus point: what to do with all the legacy code when there's no time to eradicate all the dicts.
I think that one of the most important things to focus on improving is how fast you can work.
You’ve probably heard that the Rust type checker can be a great “co-pilot”, helping you to avoid subtle bugs that would have been a royal pain in the !@#!$! to debug. This is truly awesome! But what you may not realize is how it feels in the moment when this happens. The answer typically is: really, really…
My thoughts on why programming hasn’t changed that much and where the next generation of improvements will come
It seems like I can’t spend five minutes on reddit these days without someone playing the JS-is-Scheme is card . I see everything from the innocuous, “JavaScript has a lot in common with Scheme”, all the way up to, “JavaScript is basically Scheme.” This is basically crazy. Or, at least it has a lot in common with…
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Android phones have been growing ever more powerful with time, with the Nexus 5 sporting a quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400; this is a very powerful CPU for a mobile …
Learn all about Java 25's new CPU-time profiler and why it matters in this weeks blog post from the creator himself.
A struct in C is the best way to organize your data so that you can easily use the data later in your program. However, there are a few caveats to C structures, mainly how their memory works. Note that I’m making a lot of assumptions about type sizes and standards. These can differ between systems and ABI’s, so for…
Funding In total urllib3 received $26,615 USD in financial support and distributed $18,622 USD to maintainers and community contributors. We're thankful for the financial support we receive from o...
Outcrop is a modern knowledge base for software teams, built with Rust and Solid.
Hey hey! Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am also known as 'Diz'! I made this site to document my research and contributions throughout the years, and other fun stuff I could come up with. Hope you're having a good day/afternoon/night wherever you are!
GraalVM challenges the status quo on the JVM. This newly-released just-in-time compiler brings substantial speed improvements and support for polyglot applications. It also allows us to translate our JVM bytecode into small self-contained native binaries. In this session we’ll explore Graal’s impact on Clojure. We’ll…
Tiger Style and matklad recommend pushing ifs up and fors down. This post looks at what the idiom actually says, where it shows up in query optimization and in the algebra of functional programs, and where the analogy stops paying for itself.
I am updating volume 2 of Core Java and got stuck on the section on text files in the internationalization chapter. How hard can this be in 2016? Surely everyone uses UTF-8 these days. Or do they? Make a file Test.java
I released Datasette 0.55 and sqlite-utils 3.6 this week with a common theme across both releases: supporting cross-database joins. Cross-database queries in Datasette SQLite databases are single files on disk. …
I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, …
