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AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible
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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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Trampolines in JavaScript
A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk -returning functions ( continuation-passing style ). A single trampoline is sufficient to express all control transfers of a program; a program so expressed is trampolined, or in trampolined style; converting a program to trampolined style is trampolining…
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80x40
The git repo as art.
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Adding tests when you don't have time to
Here's a recipe you can follow when you want to add tests on Legacy Code, but you don't have much ti
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Rust's Golden Rule
I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…
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Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The Coding Zone
There are a few things you'll need for a productive programming session.
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Memory Mapping an FPGA from an STM32
I teased at this a bit in my previous posts and finally have a setup I’m happy with, so I thought I’d do a more in-depth writeup.
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How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
Making programs slower can be useful to find...
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Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete
We've already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven't gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the…
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Zig Error Patterns
Although I try to make good use of the debugger, I am quite used to print-based debugging, especially for unit tests. I wanted to explore some tricks to improve print-based debugging, and also incorporate the debugger more.
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Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray I’ve been adding more integration tests for Fray recently. To ensure Fray can handle different scenarios, I wrote many creative test cases. Many of them passed as expected, while some failures led to epic fixes in Fray. Then something…
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Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
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A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
I was intrigued by Jev and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev and SemIf . Reading about them introduced me ...
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McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Interfaces – The Most Important Software Engineering Concept
An interface can be thought of as a contract between the system and the environment. In a computer program, the 'system' is the function or module in question, and the 'environment' is the rest of the project. The interface formally describes what can pass between the system and the environment. An 'implementation'…
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Running GPT-2 in WebGL: Rediscovering the Lost Art of GPU Shader Programming
A few weeks back, I implemented GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders (Github Repo) which made the front page of Hacker News. Here is a short write-up over what I …
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Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip
Alex Clemesha is a full-stack software engineer based in San Diego, California.
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Emacs: Mastering Eshell
Emacs has a shell written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Here's how you master Eshell, a versatile and powerful shell capable of supplanting bash or zsh as your daily driver.
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Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes
or: how you can deploy services to Kubernetes that require long periods of draining. #🌈 🌈 🌈 #If you want to jump directly to the technical solution, check out the project repo. Below is a short story about how we got to this solution.
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Example-Driven Development
programming, language design, and human factors
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The Hardest Tarball?
Here is a curiosity: an archive that can be constructed using a single GNU tar invocation, that is extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on what tool you use.
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Letter to a young programmer
Dear (insert name here), I heard you enjoy a certain programming language named Python. Programming is a wonderful activity. I am a little...
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Unpacking Elixir: Real-Time and Latency
Elixir was built on Erlang. Erlang was built to provide "consistently low latency" and a few other audacious goals. Note, this is not a hard realtime constraint. It is soft, squishy and yet, important and real. It makes Erlang unusually suitable to systems where latency matters and where a near-realtime experience is…
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Preload, prefetch and other link tags
There’re lots of ways to improve web performance (see Web Performance 101 for a full overview). One of those ways is to preload content you’ll need later in advance. Prefetch a CSS file, prerender a full page, or resolve a domain ahead of time – and you won’t have to wait for it when it’s actually needed! Sounds cool.