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MiniRust
I have been thinking about the semantics of Rust – as in, the intended behavior of Rust programs when executed, in particular those containing unsafe code – a lot. Probably too much. But al...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Oscar's thoughts too large for a tweet
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Introduction to HTML Components
HTML Components (HTC), introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5, offers a powerful new way to author interactive Web pages. Using standard DHTML, JScript and CSS knowledge, you can define custom behaviors on elements using the “behavior” attribute. Let’s create a behavior for a simple kind of “image roll-over” effect. For…
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When is it better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
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You should know this before choosing Next.js
Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implication...
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Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1)
Part 1: expressions, arithmetic Part 2: statements, control flow Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to create my own systems pr...
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The Pendulum Swings, Again
In the early days of computing, computers were physical monsters, occupying large rooms or even whole buildings. Acess to them was closely guarded, you were lucky if you had access at all, let alone close-up and personal access. That was reserved for the system operators, the people tasked with the relatively boring…
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Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
The best platform for cycle-accurate retro PC emulation may just be the Mac. The M6 achieved a stable 600MHz clock using a 6.0 derived 86Box build.
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SSH: Best practices
The comments around the last OpenSSH issue ( CVE 2016-0777 , you must read excellent Qualys’ analysis if you’re interested with the details), I noticed that many people were not aware of some basic features of OpenSSH. I will attempt to give a few advises, prioritized in feasibility order, and with graphical…
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Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
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Mastering Programming (2016)
FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK
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OpenGL in 2014
Valve is investing in OpenGL to hedge themselves against Microsoft. Some well-known developers have written about the deficiencies in the API. A few competing, proprietary APIs have popped up. In an effort to remain competitive, Khronos announces glnext: a ground-up rethinking of the OpenGL and OpenGL ES APIs. This…
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Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.
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Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
There are certain kinds of experiences that most human beings know very little about because a) they are rare, b) they can only be felt from the "inside", i.e., by the people who have them, and c) not all of those people choose to, or are good at, writing
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Roll Your Own Analytics
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
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Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
Writing auto-pilots in JavaScript for MSFS
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Amazon Health
Amazon Health doesn’t seem like much now, but there are hints it could be the ultimate application of Aggregation Theory.
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Yes, The CIA Spied On Congress
Why? The torture report, of course: Late last night, McClatchy reported that the CIA inspector general has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the CIA illegally monitored C…
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Introduction to logic programming with Prolog
Short introduction to the Prolog language and its essential features.
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PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you
A closer look at a fashion trend in printed circuit board design.
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K8s with 1M nodes
This is an effort to create a fully functional Kubernetes cluster with 1 million active nodes.
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Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
Matthew Weidner | May 21st, 2025 Home | RSS Feed Keywords: text editing, server reconciliation, Articulated
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Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years
I recently compiled a list of Perlis Languages that were meant to illustrate varying paradigms not typically found in mainstream programming languages. Those languages were meant to stretch your mind and are not necessarily representative of the state of the art in language design and implementation. In this post I…
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Dropbox as a Git Server
git-remote-dropbox is now on PyPI!