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Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,540 posts.
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Evidence-based software engineering: book released
My book, Evidence-based software engineering , is now available; the pdf can be downloaded here , here and here , plus all the code+data . Report any issues here . I’m investigating the possibility of a printed version. Mobile friendly pdf (layout shaky in places).
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CVE Stuffing
I monitor the @CVENew Twitter feed to keep up with any interesting new vulnerabilities that are released. On December 11th CVE-2020-29589 was published claiming that “the kapacitor Docker ima…
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
This short story is not really about htop, or about the feature request that I’ll use as an illustration, but about what are the core principles that drive the development of a bit of software, down to every last detail. And by “core principles” I really mean it.
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Finding the “second bug” in glibc’s condition variable
I continue to have no time for big programming projects, so here is a short blog post. Two years ago I looked into a bug in the glibc implementation of condition variables: Sometimes pthread_cond_s…
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All Hail Geometric Algebra
Rotate a cube by 90 degrees around the \(x\)-axis, then rotate it by 90 degrees around the \(z\)-axis. This is equivalent to a single rotation. What is the axis and angle of this single rotation?
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AI Meets WinDBG
Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.
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How I wrote Game Programming Patterns
Update 2014/04/28: In case you missed the link, the web site for my book is gameprogrammingpatterns.com .
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I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
Sometimes, I don’t know why I do things. It’s one of these times. A few months ago, Python 3.13 got its JIT engine, built with a new JIT compiler construction methodology (copy-patch, cf. research paper ). After reading the paper, I was sold and I just had to try it with PostgreSQL. And what a fun ride it’s been so…
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“It is never a compiler error”
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
I sent my CV for a role at Kagi Search, the description of the role can be found here:
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Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness2021289 points343 commentsSoftware Engineering details
I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!
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Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
A great amount of my writing on this site revolves around complaining about modern user interface design . Some people agree with me, some don't. Most probably don't care at all. That's fine. What I find interesting is that many (but not all!) people who disagree either present extremely specific non-argument nitpicks…
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A personal story about 10× development
During the last few days there has been an ongoing Twitter storm about 10× developers. And like all the ones before it (and all the future o...
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The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
Technical Web Development Blog
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Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
Everyone 1 and their dog 2 loves Git. I know I do. It works, it’s efficient, it has a brilliant data model, and it sports every feature under the sun . In 13 years of using it, I’ve never found myself needing a feature it didn’t have. Until recently.
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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
My personal website, portfolio, and blog.
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A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app
Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.
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Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.
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Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+
Hi! I've taken this blog offline, but you can still read this post in the archive.org version .
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Learning Parser Combinators with Rust
This article teaches the fundamentals of parser combinators to people who are already Rust programmers. It assumes no other knowledge, and will explain everything that isn't directly related to Rust, as well as a few of the more unexpected aspects of using Rust for this purpose. It will not teach you Rust if you don't…
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Io uring
Introduced in 2019 (kernel 5.1) by Jens Axboe, io_uring (henceforth uring) is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls, and receiving the results as they're generated. Whereas epoll and kqueue support multiplexing, where you're told when you can usefully perform a system call using some set of…
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Diff Algorithms
How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff library in my hand.
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Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
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“Computer science is not about computers”
Edsger W. Dijkstra? Alan Perlis? Jacques Arsac? George Johnson? Donald Knuth? Matthew Dennis Haines? Anonymous?