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Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
C++, a "Reality sandwich", and an Octopus.
As programmers we spend a lot of time shuttling data back and forth between different systems and transforming it from one format to another. Sometimes it gets pretty miserable!
Mocking is a powerful technique for isolating tests. But yours isn’t working. Why!?
The first half introduces Rust’s language features and libraries for error handling. The second half should help you write good error handling code in Rust.
A selection of the details that makes Clojure such an enjoyable language to work with.
A very tongue-in-cheek article about why jQuery is good for the web.
A developer blog about the small things that make good software great.
Using H3 indexes to greatly speed up geospatial SQL Queries. Orders of magnitude improvements can be gained with the right data structures
My friend Lindsey Kuper recently remarked on Twitter that spreadsheets were commonly understood to be the most widely used dataflow program...
This year I got a very special gift for Christmas: a broken DualShock 4. :smile:You may say it’s a relatively poor gift, but the person who gave me this know...
thoughts
I’ve been reading Pearl’s Causal Inference in Statistics , and one of the exercises poses this problem:
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
I’ve been learning Rust for the past twenty days or so, working through the Blandy & Orendorff book, coding up things as I go. Once I got into playing with Rust traits and closures and as…
When you write code, you want to focus on the code, not on the text of the code. This means a) you have to have a good text editing setup, and b) you need to have a muscle-memory level instinct for using that setup. The second comes with practice and with consistency (i.e. not changing your config too much too…
A bloom filter is one of those data structures you are probably already aware of, or have at least heard about. For those looking for a simple recap, they are a probabilistic data structure which can …
Curiosity killed the cat I've always been amazed by early game developers. Unlike today, they had to bend and twist software to its extre...
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
We’ve heard from a lot of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users that they like to edit code and configuration files without leaving their browser. We're now making that easier by offering a new feature: an integrated code editor.
Today we're running Apache NuttX RTOS inside a Web Browser. What if we could compile and test NuttX Apps in the Web Browser? Let's explore with TCC 64-bit RISC-V Compiler, compiled to WebAssembly with Zig Compiler.
This post is meant to create more awareness about state machines in the web application developer crowd. If you don’t know what state machines are, please read up on them first. Wikipedia is a good place to start, as always. State machines are awesome The main reason for using state machines is to help the design…
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to invalid memory and ensuring data-race freedom. This is a form of resource management: the borrow checker is tracking…
