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How to implement search-by-color when all you have is a good coffee
Hey there! Last week I started working on a rewrite of Shefa Products which is a wholesale merchandising e-commerce for Argentina.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,544 posts.
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Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human’s.
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Writing a Raytracer in Rust – Part 1
Hello! This is part one of a short series of posts on writing a simple raytracer in Rust. I’ve never written one of these before, so it should be a learning experience all around. So what is a raytracer anyway? The short version is it’s a computer program that traces the paths of simulated rays of light through a…
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Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
Cross compilation is one of Go’s headline features. I’ve written about it a few times , and others have taken this work and built better tooling around it.
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How to program a text adventure in C (2016)
This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular. Maybe you just finished reading a tutorial, and you would like to learn some more by studying other people's source…
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Demystifying Debuggers
An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.
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Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape
About six months back, I wrote a post on how to use views in Postgres to encapsulate tables and create a versioned interface to a database. At the end of the…
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Separate Your Billing from Entitlements
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you…
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Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today
Most web developers I talk to these days love writing JavaScript with all the newest language features—async/await, classes, arrow functions, etc. However, despite the fact that all modern browsers can run ES2015+ code and natively support the features I just mentioned, most developers still transpile their code to…
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Algorithms tutorial series for beginners
As a developer, you have the power to change the world! You can write programs that enable new technologies. For instance, develop software to find an earlier diagnosis of diseases. But that’s not the only way. You might do it indirectly by creating projects that make people more productive and help them free up time…
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Implementing React from Scratch
A detailed explanation of the architecture I used to rebuild react
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From macOS to Windows and WSL
Writings about computing, agents, and the Internet.
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Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)
How to stand out in job interviews as an engineer.
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AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile
This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techn…
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I hate compilers
You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.
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My Node.js is a bit Rusty
Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a x25 perf boost. Let’s understand why.
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Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review (2010)
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago BarnOwl, the console-based IM client I…
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Practical Front-End Architecture
We’ve been upgrading our frontend tech stack at Liferay Cloud this past year. Nifty tools we’ve adopted include:...
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The Metaprogrammer
There are some topics which, if posted onto a forum or news site, cause programmers to spew out more blather than all the rest put together. Such topics include:
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Java Pain
In 2014, it’s not OK if it’s hard for a developer to run a simple program from the command line.
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How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
How I taught my 7½ year old 4 bash commands in one hour