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I’ve been looking for the past year for a suitable programming environment for my two boys (10 & 7) that moves them beyond graphical environments like Scratch and Lego Mindstorms and into the land of real programming (a [few years ago](http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2008/11/08/go-get-scratch) we had great success with…
Since Fred Brooks published his essay, I believe that we, contrary to his prediction, have witnessed several silver bullets.
Many people must have heard this quote (by Phil Karlton) many times: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Two days ago, Nick Tierney mentioned it …
Spoiler : it is also likely already the best BZip2 encoder for a given block size. See the green charts below. Note for subscribers: if you...
Most systems today rely on Unicode strings. However, we have two popular Unicode formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. We often need to convert from one format to the other. For example, you might have a database formatted with UTF-16, but you need to produce JSON documents using UTF-8. This conversion is often called…
This is a little sed challenge that ocurred to me somewhat recently, when I wondered how many weeks were between 2 dates. Of course, I just looked at the calendar and counted, but then I wondered what kind of sed script I’d need in the middle of a cal -y | ... | wc -l pipeline to get the same answer.
How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.
Tokio is a Rust framework for developing applications which perform asynchronous I/O — an event-driven approach that can often achieve better …
Design patterns are these cool things that make you go 'hell yeah' because they make a certain problem easier to deal with. Whether it's applicable to all languages, or due to a language constraint, they're pretty nice. Of course, some people go crazy with them rather than doing the simple thing that works. Other…
area being the function you really care about it is defined first - after all, code reads from top to bottom.
Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…
I gave the best programming interview answer I may have ever given last Friday. The interviewer hauled out FizzBuzz and asked me to solve it. It took me a minute to stop laughing. FizzBuzz is a brain-dead simple programming problem, used pretty much to tell if a developer has a pulse at all. It is…
Virtual Threads are an excellent addition to Java platform and here's how Clojure is going to benefit from it.
Teenagers' hands are the devil's playthings.
In my attempts to learn the C programming language well enough to write my own C compiler , I've encountered some very interesting examples of C syntax that you generally don't see every day. All of these examples you'll see here will compile without warnings or errors even with very strict compiler flags in gcc and…
One of the biggest issues with Higgs, the JIT compiler I’m working on, is that the compilation times are too slow. The performance of the compiled machine code that Higgs produces is now fair…
I learned a neat tip from my co-worker, Craig Silverstein ( more on Craig joining Khan Academy ), recently and I thought others might find it to be useful.
CVE-2025-7783 is a very recent vulnerability affecting a lot of applications in the Node.js ecosystem including those which use axios or the deprecated request library. In all honesty, this vulnera…
It's fairly common to use git repositories as a vehicle for serving websites. The webdev pushes their changes to some branch of a publicly available git repository, and some web server somewhere serves the current tip of that branch as the website. Github Pages would be the most famous example of this.
JavaScripters often complain about the complexity of React. But to ClojureScripters, React is very nice. What's the difference? In this article, we explore 6 mistakes Reacters make, including mutable state everywhere, Lifecycle Methods and, non-reusable components.
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