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Probability theory might be the most useful area for programmers, but it is also a blurry field, difficult to learn right. You might check this book for details, and there is also an free, online draft version available. The Logic of Science
Disclaimer: I’m no sysadmin extraordinaire, please please please correct me if there’s something blatantly wrong here:
Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API
This is going to be a bit long, so tl;dr asm.js is a formalization of a pattern of JavaScript that has been developing in a natural way o...
At PeerDB, our mission is to create a Postgres-first data-movement platform that makes it fast and simple to stream data from Postgres to Data Warehouses…
After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
I'm the president of VideoLAN, one of the lead developers of VLC and a maintainer of open source multimedia projects. I created several startups, was the CTO of scale-ups, and advised startups and VCs.
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Earlier today Rich Hickey let the cat out of the bag that I’m joining the Clojure Core development team.
(the pictured dish is apparently materials for “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall”, named for its ability to seduce away vegetarians – sadly it uses shark fin so has some ethical issues&…
Safari 17.4 adds vertical writing mode support for form control elements across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
On April 27, 2019, I gave a talk on how to use OpenBSD to write better software at CarolinaCon 15 in Charlotte.
I’ve been a software developer at EBANX since 2016. There we have a mechanism called Release Candidate. Every time we deploy something new to our monolith PHP system we end up deploying it first to the release candidate server. Then we elect a few random requests and proxy it from our live normal servers to the…
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:
For many types of applications, at times it is necessary to pause the running of the program until some external condition occurs. You may need to wait until another thread finishes, or maybe until a…
By Robert Smith, Elias Lawson-Fox, Cole Scott Updated July 1, 2025 by Robert Smith. Introduction Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp. We can load it like a normal Lisp library. CL-USER> (asdf:load-system "coalton") CL-USER> (in-package #:coalton-user) COALTON-USER> This…
Crystal 0.28.0 has been released!
Software engineer specializing in query engines and distributed systems
This is part 11 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Natural Transformations. See the Table of Contents. Introduction to Part II In the first part of the book I argued that both category theo…
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for…
Hi, welcome to my website! This is where I share my thoughts on things that interest me, mostly tech, philosophy, history, and math.
We're pleased to announce the 1.8 release of PyPy. As habitual this release brings a lot of bugfixes, together with performance and memory i...
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 13. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 13 page and the full GCC documentation .
