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How to increase your surface area for luck
You should just do things
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,235 posts.
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Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations
What UUIDs and ULIDs are under the hood, and how to encode and use them.
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How a Zig IDE Could Work
Zig is a very interesting language from an IDE point of view. Some aspects of it are friendly to IDEs, like a very minimal and simple-to-parse syntax (Zig can even be correctly lexed line-by-line, very cool!), the absence of syntactic macros, and ability to do a great deal of semantic analysis on a file-by-file basis…
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Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)
Software engineer by day, software engineer by night also.
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The simplest app that makes money
Start your indie sotware journey by creating the simplest app you can monetize
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
It’s been a long, confusing, exhausting federal election season. We’re all tired. But put aside your worries, fellow citizens; it’s time for the invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal …
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Safely writing code that isn't thread-safe
An under-appreciated Rust feature
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Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers
This article contains a collection of resources for senior (or staff+) engineers exploring the use of LLM for collaborative programming.
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Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?
In this article, I'm trying to understand what makes the OpenBSD documentation that good.
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Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol
In this All Things Linguistic post Gretchen and Lauren introduce a model dialogue:
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Geometry from Another Universe
You start on an enclosed lawn, surrounded by four walls with a doorway in one of them. If you go in and explore, you might begin to feel trapped. You'll find you can visit five different rooms in the house, or go back outside to the lawn, but there's no way to go anywhere else. It's not because there are walls…
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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...
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Rust: A Scala Engineer's Perspective
Looking back at my year of Rust. Part reflection, part waymark.
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React: Another Level of Indirection
React provides a better abstraction over the DOM than MVC frameworks ever can. React is the last piece of the puzzle for ClojureScript web frontend development.
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I finally understand methane lifetimes
How to arrive at a number you can trust
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LLMs Are Complicated Now
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendatio…
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You too can write a book
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Why I wrote a book about interpreters
Last week I’ve self-published my first book called “Writing An Interpreter In Go”, which you can get at interpreterbook.com . I want to tell you a little bit about why I chose to write this particular book.
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The Age of Nvidia
alexstjohn.com is your first and best source for information about alexstjohn. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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A Tale of Query Optimization
Last December, I got an interesting bug report from the VWO support team. It seemed like the loading time of a particular analytics report was ridiculously slow for a big Enterprise customer. Since I am part of the Data platform, a flag was immediately raised and I got involved in debugging the issue.
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Number of legal Go positions computed
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