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A walk through the Magit interface
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,828 posts.
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Introducing Ampersand.js
The blog of &yet, a design and web software company that strengthens your customer relationships through creative technology.
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Compromising Angular via expired NPM publisher email domains
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (2018)
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed by anybody.
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails
Part of Shopify’s success with Ruby on Rails is an emphasis on writing fast code. But, how do you really write fast code? Let’s talk about a few ways to start writing faster code in Active Record, Rails, and Ruby.
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F() vs. F(void) in C vs. C++
Prefer f(void) in C to potentially save a 2B instruction per function call when targeting x86_64 as a micro-optimization. -Wstrict-prototypes can help. Doesn’t matter for C++.
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Mono 3.0 is out
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps
This past summer we completed a project that spanned several months of planning and preparation - moving our source control from...
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Software compatibility and our own “User-Agent” problem
Sometimes you have to write code to do some ad-hoc things in order to make programs run in a variety of environments, but as time goes by, it could result in a tragicomical situation where ad-hoc features are built on other ad-hoc features. It is easy to identify that kind of problem, but in many cases, nobody can fix…
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A Gentle Introduction to Rust
Introduction to the Rust language, standard library and ecosystem
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A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust
Exploring tail-call-style interpreter implementation with an optimized Uxn emulator, on ARM, x86, and WebAssembly
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Faktory, a new background job system
Yesterday I explained how a good background job framework is critical to scaling business applications. Today, meet Faktory. I’ve spent the last six months building Faktory, a new background job system which aims to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language…
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Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
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Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs
I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is
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The one true REST explanation
Leonard Richardson's model for understanding a RESTful architecture as steps in a maturity model. Levels are (1) resources, (2) HTTP verbs and return codes, and (3) hypertext controls.
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A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012)
A guide to all the Magic Methods in Python
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Solving SICP
This report is written as a post-mortem of a project that has, perhaps, been the author’s most extensive personal project: creating a complete and comprehensive solution to one of the most fa…
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Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings
It’s not often I am able to write a patch that not only reduces memory usage, but increases speed as well. Usually I find myself trading memory for speed, so it’s a real treat when I can improve both in one patch. Today I want to talk about the patch I submitted to Ruby in this ticket. It decreases “after boot” memory…
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How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)
You're reading the original article in English. You can as well read the translation in Russian .
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I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years
Imagine you close your laptop lid to put it to sleep, but instead of pausing, it reboots. Not every time, just often enough to be infuriating. You try to save your work, but the machine decides to start over.