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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,544 posts.
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Building software to last forever
How Bear is going to live a long and healthy life
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Why browse the Web in Emacs? (2008)
“Are you browsing Slashdot in Emacs?”, W- asked me after he glanced at my screen.
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Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)
After two years of being open source and a lot of development, Specter has reached 1.0. In this po...
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The case of the 9 bit AES key
Several PDF implementations advertise AES-256, but generate the 256-bit key from either a very small state space, or from insecure random sources.
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AVX512 VBMI – remove spaces from text
Removing spaces from a string is a common task in text processing. Instead of removing single character we often want to remove all the white space characters or the punctuation characters etc.
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Resizable structs in Zig
In this post I will make the case for the concept of a “runtime resizable struct” in Zig. I will then design an API by exploiting Zig’s powerful comptime functionality.
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Lossy GIF compressor
This is an encoder (based on gifsicle ) which implements lossy LZW compression. It can reduce animgif file sizes by 30%—50% at a cost of some dithering/noise.
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A Container Is a Function Call
There’s something missing from the Docker ecosystem: a type-checker.
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I am a puts debuggerer
Update (2023-06-28): Added “I required a file, but I want to know what files were actually loaded” I love puts debugging I am a puts debuggerer. I don’t say this to disparage people that use a Real Debugger. I think Real Debuggers are great, I’ve just never taken the time to learn one well. Every time I try to lean…
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Simple note taking from the command line
This is a simple function that can be called from the command line, just like if it was a regular com...
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Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line.
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Building a Stateless API Proxy
How to make an access-limiting proxy for any API
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Data Still Dominates
I’m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it’s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful… I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important…
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Django Advice
For the past year and a half or so I've been working full-time at Dumbwaiter Design doing Django development. I've picked up a bunch of useful tricks along the way that help me work, and I figured I'd share them.
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WinRT demystified
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Sorting in Emacs
In this article, we will perform a series of hands-on experiments that demonstrate the various Emacs commands that can be used to sort text in different ways. There is sufficient documentation available for these commands in the Emacs and Elisp manuals. In this article, however, we will take a look at some concrete…
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Swap_8_and_9: A simple import can modify the Python interpreter
Summary : I present a simple Python module that after imported, changes the values of two integers. The purpose is (a) show that modules can do harmful and unexpected things, (b) show an example of how to write a simple module in C, and (c) introduce a few things in CPython source code.
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Debugging in Vim
Vim 8.1 was released in May 2018. The “main new feature” was official support for running a terminal within vim. Along with this came a built-in debugger plugin, termdebug, which provid…
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Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
I spent a lot of time and effort digging up the numbers and facts for this post! Lots of people keep referring to the awesome summary put together by a friendly pseudonymous "Tim" which says that "53 out of 95" (55.7%) security flaws in curl could've been prevented if curl had been written in Rust. … Continue reading…
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Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka
Kari Marttila’s Blog (e.g. cloud and Clojure related articles)
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Speeding up Rails startup time
In which I provide easy instructions to try a new patch that drastically improves the start up time of Ruby applications, in the hope that with wide support it will be merged into the upcoming 1.9.3 release. Skip to the bottom for instructions, or keep reading for the narrative.
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Explaining the browser's event loop, tasks, and microtasks
When I told my colleague Matt Gaunt I was thinking of writing a piece on microtask queueing and execution within the browser's event loop, he said "I'll be honest with you Jake, I'm not going to read that". Well, I've written it anyway, so we're all going to sit here and enjoy it, ok?