Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,824 posts.
“lex and yacc” are two terms that are used together so often that they can seem indivisible. lex takes a string as input and divides it up into lexemes (roughly speaking “words”) and yacc takes a sequence of lexemes and parses them. Since some parsing approaches such as recursive descent parsing unify these phases…
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I listened to a podcast about Lena Dunham. I knew nothing about her, had never seen any of her work, and probably never will. But the episode ended with thes...
I left my own startup after almost 5 years of hard work. It was a tough decision, but a necessary one.
Can we just keep adding more clients until at 150 clients we hit $300k MRR?
The most important step is the first one. Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times. We built lots of different houses and learned from each other's failures. Gravitating away from monopolies is a way everyone can help improve software, regardless of our abilities or needs.
I was reminded by a discussion with a friend why, as a manager, you should be cautious about the relations you develop with the people in your team.
In the old days when I started programming, green programmers trying to build their skills and get experience started out doing maintenance programming. Only the old hands got to write new code. The newbies cut their teeth debugging and fixing musty old code that still worked for the business. I’ve done my share of…
Douglas Adams on Hypercard + New Educational Models
My post Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” really took off. It sat at the top of Hacker News for a full day, and is …
Knuth knows how to maintain information hygeine.
Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats.
Research on programming tools published at CHI 2023.
Finalist #10 in the Book Review Contest
HyperRogue version 13.0 is released on Steam and itch.io ! Again, it was quite a long time since the last major update (12.0, from 2021)....
CRDTs sound cool, but how are they actually used? Let's learn by building a collaborative pixel art editor.
The Compact Calendar presents days as a continuous candy bar of time. Weeks are presented as a stack of available time with no gaps, making it easier to count-out days naturally as you think.
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
UPDATE: Wow, this post has gotten popular! I’ve written a new post that adds new papercuts combined with concrete suggestions for how C++ could improve, if you are interested. Also, if you want to read more about C++’s deeper-than-papercut issues, I recommend specifically my post on its move semantics. Thank you for…
A blog, mostly about programming
I'm sick of it. In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making tools that are great...
It’s an empirical observation that rail riders who are faced with a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination. Reinhard Clever&#…
I've decided to take the blog down. It's come to my attention some of my former colleagues don't enjoy it as much as I thought they would. N...
Since this article contains a lot of interactive demos relying on fairly modern browser technology, let's make sure that everything is OK before continuing.
Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article. This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system. Th…
For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. In this article, I describe my goals, which hardware I picked for my new build (and why) and how I set it up.
TLS protocol is fundamental to internet security. All South Korean security applications add their own “trusted” Certificate Authorities however, weakening this protocol severely.
