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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,545 posts.
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Crafting Interpreters: Classes
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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A systematic approach to debugging
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk [1] after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here for it.
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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
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Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites
blog-cells can turn any web page into an interactive code notebook, similar to Jupyter notebooks, but powered by JavaScript and running entirely in the browser.
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Programmable Notes
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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Improved Error Handling in Rust
Overview of how to handle errors in the current version of the Rust programming language.
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The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift
Here at FlexMonkey Towers, the ever beautiful Mrs FlexMonkey and I love to spend our Sunday mornings luxuriating in bed drinking Mimosa...
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Building a Program Synthesizer
Build a program synthesis tool, to generate programs from specifications, in 20 lines of code using Rosette.
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Visualizing Your Ruby Heap
In a previous post, I wrote a bit about how Ruby objects are laid out in memory. Today we’ll use that information to write a program that will allow us to take a Ruby heap dump and visualize the layout and fragmentation of that heap. Ruby Object Layout Recap Just as a recap, Ruby objects are fixed width. That is…
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Git-subtrac: all your Git submodules in one place
Long ago, I wrote git-subtree to work around some of my annoyances with git submodules. I've learned a lot since then, and the development e...
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Working on The Witness, Part 1 (2012)
Mapping the walkable surfaces on the island of The Witness as a step toward bulletproofing the player movement code.
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A full TCP/IP stack in under 200 LoC (and the power of DSLs)
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series. Part one appeared Monday and part two appeared yesterday.)
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A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)
Have you ever had a weird idea, and then it worked, but you can't really believe it?
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Let's Build a Compiler (1988)
This series of articles is a tutorial on the theory and practice of developing language parsers and compilers. Before we are finished, we will have covered every aspect of compiler construction, designed a new programming language, and built a working compiler.
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Datomic: this is not the history you're looking for
In this post, I'll describe some common pitfalls regarding the use of the 'time-travel' features of Datomic ( db.asOf() , db.history() , :db/txInstant ).
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Shellcode Injection
Injecting shellcode by overflowing the buffer - Demonstration
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Taking a Look at CLR Thread Pool 'Thread Injection' Algorithm
As part of a never-ending quest to explore the CoreCLR source code I stumbled across the intriguing titled ‘HillClimbing.cpp’ source file. This post explains what it does and why.
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How to build a `Git diff` driver
How to write an external tool for `git diff` to delegate complex diffs to.
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How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
In the world of technology, “forever” means about 5 years. It’s humbling to think that the 1992 JPEG image standard is still going strong despite being more than 5 “forevers” old. Why has it been so successful? This article presents the key ideas behind JPEG in plain language and includes an interactive JPEG…
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The trouble with timestamps
Some folks have asked whether Cassandra or Riak in last-write-wins mode are monotonically consistent, or whether they can guarantee read-your-writes, and so on. This is a fascinating question, and leads to all sorts of interesting properties about clocks and causality.
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68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code
Because the CLR is a managed environment there are several components within the runtime that need to be initialised before any of your code can be executed. This post will take a look at the EE (Execution Engine) start-up routine and examine the initialisation process in detail.
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Physical Knobs and Elixir
I like production gear. Audio, video and .. miscellaneous. I like things that seem like they'll make me oh-so-very productive. I'm a sucker prosumer as a hobby. Let's talk about Elgato, Elixir and why I never actually get anything done. This is unfortunately not sponsored by a prosumer brand, or anyone, that'd have…
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