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Forget programs. The most important productivity tool for programming is your mind. And the next best set of software development tools are ones that take care of you. It isn’t about Git. Or Docker. Or testing frameworks. These are all useful tools. I use them daily. But they are not the most important software…
Recently piet-gpu has taken a big step towards realizing its vision, moving the computation of path clipping from partially being done on the CPU to entirely being done on the GPU.
Nearly all of Go’s distinctive design decisions were aimed at making software engineering simpler and easier. We’ve said this often. The canonical reference is Rob Pike’s 2012 article, “ Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering .” But what is software engineering?
A recap on the work done in NumPy and CPython to make multi-threaded NumPy workloads scale on the free-threaded build of CPython.
I’ve been curious about what happens inside Claude Code so I’ve spent a couple hours digging through prompts that it sends back to Anthropic.
Learn how to pull the pieces of a URL apart the lazy way so you can find out all the important information you wish to know about your URLs.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll get a clearer understanding of Python's object model and learn why pointers don't really exist in Python. You'll also cover ways to simulate pointers in Python without the memory-management nightmare.
bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats.
We’ve learned the basics of Clojure’s syntax and evaluation model . Now we’ll take a tour of the basic nouns in the language.
Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban . Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot , our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to…
I've been writing an IMAP client for and on my Mac 512Ke over the past many weeks. Taking inspiration from Andreas Kling's excellent YouTube videos documenting his development of the Serenity operating system, I thought I'd start screencasting some of my work.
Creating standalone Linux applications with lone.
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Racket CS improved the performance of large-integer arithmetic. Racket has improved support for layered and tethered installation. Racket ...
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wingolog: article: growing fibers
We introduce Flamingo, a single visual language model (VLM) that sets a new state of the art in few-shot learning on a wide range of open-ended multimodal tasks.
Lucas Pluvinage's website
This isn't a late April Fools joke. (My April Fools joke that I got hired by Apple as a Swift Evangelist backfired with a profusion of congratulations.) This blog post is a kind of follow-up to some previous blog posts. Last month I wondered what's the best way to distribute Mac apps without notarization , and I…
