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Pony 0.29
We are proud to announce the release of Pony version 0.29.0. This release includes several improvements to the standard library's TCP support. This version contains breaking API changes. We recomme...
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How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...
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OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp
Java classes become CLOS classes, seven JVM languages share one Lisp expression, and a saved Spring Boot application launches in 84 milliseconds.
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The Last Line Effect
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Diving into Other People's Code
This post will walk you through an exercise in diving into someone else's code. The goal will be to make an arbitrary change to the code of the Spyder Python IDE , a project I have never touched before in my life, and learn just enough about it to accomplish what I want without getting bogged down. You will learn how…
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Linux at 20, some personal memories (2011)
This is going to be long and rambling. If you're going to read it, you may want to wait until you're ill, and can't get out of bed, and your head is filled with cotton, and you're eating painkillers like they were candy. I don't want you to feel pain while reading. Being unconscious and having a speech synthesizer…
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V8: a tale of two compilers
wingolog: article: v8: a tale of two compilers
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Python 2.7.8
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Computational Geometry in Python
This post is a simplified version of the accompanying notebook to chapter 6 of my upcoming book Mastering SciPy. Click anywhere on this box for more information.
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GNU/Linux shell related internals
What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux shell related internals: file descriptors, pipes, terminals, user sessions, process groups and daemons # Last updated: Oct 2025 Contents File descriptor and open file description Pipes Process groups, jobs and sessions Terminals and pseudoterminals Despite the era of…
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How the Winning Tron Bot Works
[ Update 8/2/2011 : you can play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot here .]
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Connected Components – The one Graph Algorithm you need to know
Graphs provide us with a very useful data structure.
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Making art with SSH key randomart
SSH is everywhere in the development or operations world now. For development it’s what allows you to push to GitHub. For operations it’s what allows you to reasonably securely log into Linux servers.
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PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful
We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.1, which targets version 2.7.3 of the Python language. This is the first release with official support for...
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Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust
This post is a quick walkthrough of how I wrote a Python library, procmaps , in nothing but Rust. It uses PyO3 for the bindings and maturin to manage the build (as well as produce manylinux1 -compatible wheels).
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Full-Stack Redux Tutorial
Tero Parviainen
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Lamport Clocks
Last weekend I wanted to get some inspiration to write some TLA+ spec and I got my hands back on the paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events...
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Learning Racket #2: Macros, Macros and a Bit of Modules
https://web.archive.org/web/20201121162125/https://artyom.me/learning-racket-2
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The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1 (2015)
Part One: Initialising and moving a sprite I find it absolutely incredible that the Commodore 64 development scene is alive and well. Thanks to companies like Psytronik there is still a healthy st…
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Mini HTTP Guide for Developers
A glance behind the curtain: it can affect engineering decisions
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Writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch
In the aftermath of my previous blog post about using Nextjournal's clojure-mode for better highlighting, I tried optimizing the JS output and got a look at the internals of CodeMirror 6 . I realized that writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch wasn't that hard if you had the right tools at hand:
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What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux
This article is a guide for achieving a full-as-possible Wayland setup on Arch Linux. If you follow the entire guide, by the end you will have: