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Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
Instant 1.0 is out! This essay shows a bunch of demos, to explain why we think Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. We also cover the architecture that makes all of it work.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,827 posts.
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The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
"Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated"
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A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity
Code should be simple. Code should be butt simple. Code should be so simple that there’s no way it can be misunderstood. Good code has no nooks. Good code has no crannies. Good code is a round room with no corners for bugs to hide in. We all know this. So why does most code suck? Because it’s written
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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.
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How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build
Suppose you’re writing a non-GUI C application intended to run on a number of operating systems: Linux, the various BSDs, macOS, classical unix , and perhaps even something as exotic as Windows. It might sound like a rather complicated problem. These operating systems have slightly different interfaces (or very…
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Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application
Comparing Electron and Tauri - With a real world app
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Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better
By Appu Goundan and Qingyang Chen Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but c...
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Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
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Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
Gribouille 0.3.0 gives guides and axes a much finer on/off switch, lets compose() carry its own theme, and makes geom-area() stack by default. A long list of legend and annotation fixes rounds it out.
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Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited
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Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance
Jonan: Welcome everyone. Today we are doing an interview to talk about new features coming in Ruby 3. I am here with my coworker, Sasada Koichi san....
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One Program Written in Python, Go, and Rust
Image differentiation in three languages
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Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern
The Visitor Pattern is one of the most mis-understood of the classic design patterns. While it has a reputation as a slightly roundabout technique for doing simple processing on simple trees, it is actually an advanced tool for a specific use case: flexible, streaming, zero-overhead processing of complex data…
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Lisp in Your Language
I'm a fan of Lisp programming languages, but there's an incredible conceptual elegance that struggles to materialise as readable elegance for many unfamiliar programmers. The underlying concepts are incredibly simple, but the learning curve can represent a disproportionate challenge.
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How to Version an API
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.
Lauren Ipsum is trying to get past Jane Hecate, a little old lady who holds the Book of Passwords. Jane is older and can't see well, so she has to spell out Lauren's guess letter by letter to check whether it's the right password. How can Lauren use this to her advantage? A story about computer science and other…
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Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
Fizz Buzz is a counting game that has become oddly popular in the world of computer programming as a simple test of basic programming skills. The rules of the game are straightforward. Players say the numbers aloud in order beginning with one. Whenever a number is divisible by 3, they say 'Fizz' instead. If it is…
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Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch
In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia definition: “[…] initrd is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, which may be used as part of the Linux startup process […] to make…
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Red Programming Language 0.6.3
This new Red release contains ~830 commits, closes 86 issues , and brings a large number of new features. The main one is official support...
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How to make LLMs go fast
Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
A follow-along series of coding experiments as I explore Rust's peculiarities, from a C++ developer's perspective.
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Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
Coati is a developer tool for fast and efficient source code navigation and exploration. This is the story of how an internship at Google…