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My struggle to learn React
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,825 posts.
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When did people favor composition over inheritance?
The phrase "favor composition over inheritance" has become one of those thought-terminating cliches in software design, and I always like to take a deeper look at those to understand where they come from and what ideas we're missing if we just take the phrase at face value without engaging with the discussion that led…
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FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.
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I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?
Part of my Python FAQ. I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?
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Use boring languages with LLMs
Why coding agents perform better in cohesive ecosystems like Go than fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python
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On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
The rules laid out.
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Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
Copying data wastes memory, and modifying/mutating data can lead to bugs. Learn how to implement a compromise between the two in Python: hidden mutability.
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Going “Write-Only”
Joey Hess inspires me. He lives in a cabin and programs Haskell on a drastically under-powered netbook. He harvests all his electricity from the sun with a homemade electrical system. Joey has designed his computing life to be highly distributed like the git version control he loves. His internet connection is…
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My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer's text editor is their castle
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Garbage Collection
We say Lox is a “high-level” language because it frees programmers from worrying about details irrelevant to the problem they’re solving. The user becomes an executive, giving the machine abstract goals and letting the lowly computer figure out how to get there.
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You only need the frontier model for one single edit
/prewalk hands the cheap model a trajectory, not a plan, retaining 92–97% of frontier pass rate at roughly half the cost on SWE-Bench Pro.
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Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
How we built a performant, scalable, ACID-compliant, JavaScript-native database on FoundationDB.
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Writing like a pro with Vale and Neovim
Learn how to setup and use vale, a syntax-aware prose linter with neovim for technical writing be it personal blogs or technical documentation.
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Age of Empires Definitive Edition's pathing and movement
Typical Age DE forum post: The pathfinding in the game is terrible. First off, Age of Empires Definitive Edition is a remaster of...
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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
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Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.17.0, a relatively big release with a lot of new and exciting features and plenty breaking changes. We highly encourage users to update to this version after carefully reading about the breaking changes for some important bug
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Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python
Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation.
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Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning
Learn about attention mechanisms and how they are applied for text recognition tasks. We will also use tensorflow attention ocr to train our own number plate reader.
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Social virtual spaces with Elixir at Mozilla
A case study of how Elixir is being used at Mozilla.