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The Sad State of Debug Performance in C++
By now it should be (hopefully) widely known that the term “zero-cost abstractions” is a misnomer. Although, to be clear, it's more of an unfortunate name.
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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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ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017)
Sixteen years later, ES6/ES2015 introduced Unicode mode (the u flag) , sticky mode (the y flag) , and the RegExp.prototype.flags getter .
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Go Data Structures (2009)
When explaining Go to new programmers, I've found that it often helps to explain what Go values look like in memory, to build the right intuition about which operations are expensive and which are not. This post is about basic types, structs, arrays, and slices.
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I want XAES-256-GCM/11
I want the extended-nonce 256-bit reduced-rounds XAES-256-GCM/11 AEAD. It has infinitely randomizable nonces, a comfortable margin of multi-user security, and nearly the same performance as AES-128-GCM. Only issue is that it doesn’t exist.
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The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie
Why? Because it's awesome. Sometimes a project comes along that is impossibly ...
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In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Ansible Alternatives in Python
My VPS will soon expire, so I've decided to try to automate its deployment. After spending evening by studying Ansible alternatives, I've decided to use pyinfra, and I am quite happy with it.
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So Long, MSDN Blog
UPDATE 4: My original MSDN blog content, minus the comments, has been archived publicly on the MSDN site; thanks again to Scott and Dan and everyone else who made this happen. Why minus the comment…
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Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine
Unleash your creativity with the full power and Python, without the hassle of learning a new templating language or dealing with its limitations!
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Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
In software, it is a common problem to want to remove specific characters from a string. To make the problem precise, let us consider the removal of all ASCII control characters and spaces. In practice, it means the removal of all byte values smaller or equal than 32. I covered a related problem before, the … Continue…
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Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
A few weeks ago, Axel Roest published a simple web server comparison , that turned out to not be doing what it was thought to be doing. Figuring that out was a very interesting discussion that warrants a retrospective, to look at which parts were particularly helpful and which not so much.
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Fast Servers
There's a network-server programming pattern which is so popular that it's the canonical approach towards writing network servers:
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How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL
A roundup of some of the key ways in which Swift 5.3 enhances the overall experience of building views using SwiftUI.
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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games
I participated in Ludum Dare 27 this weekend, programming a complete game, Spacetime Adventure, in 48 hours. I make games for a living but I’d never done that before. It was fun.
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A table that should exist in all projects with a database
Links to social profiles of Ioannis Cherouvim
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When square pixels aren't square
When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.
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Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML
How I developed Daino Notes block editor from scratch.
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Make: Theory and Practice
make is a widely used and valuable development tool. It's a "build" tool: it builds programs and documentation according to a "recipe". It could really be used for anything where someone edits some files, and then runs a series of processing steps to generate some other form from the edited files. For the most part…
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A Crash Course on ML Modules (2015)
I was having lunch with a couple of Haskell programmers the other day and the subject of the ML family came up. I’ve been writing a lot of ML lately and mentioned that I thought *ML was well worth learning for the average Haskeller. When pressed why the best answer I could come up with was “Well.. clean language, Oh!…
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Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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The Error Model in Midori
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
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Automate Everything - the hacker way
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...