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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
The tools you didn’t know you need
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Taking PHP Seriously (2016)
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced co...
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Atom 1.28
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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C++20 Modules with GCC11
Introduction One of the headline changes of the C++20 standard is the inclusion of modules. Modules promise to significantly change the structure of C++ codebases and possibly signal headers’ ultimate demise (but probably not in my lifetime). It also opens the door to potentially have a unified build system and…
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The Use of assert() in SQLite
The assert(X) macro is part of standard C , in the <assert.h> header file. SQLite adds three other assert()-like macros named NEVER(X), ALWAYS(X), and testcase(X).
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The state of JavaScript modules
Recently, there was a lot of fuss on Twitter regarding the current state of ES modules, especially in Node.js, which decided to introduce…
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The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 9.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. …
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Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past
Let's solve application security at an ecosystem level by updating outdated and/or insecure blog posts to refer developers to better practices.
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WinterJS
> Follow up the WinterJS series reading about the recent production-ready WinterJS 1.0 release [here](<https://wasmer.io/posts/winterjs-v1>). Today we ...
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Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 0.6.2 release of the Red programming language and toolchain. This release is the second heavi...
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Perlisisms (1982)
2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
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Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules
Disentangle the dependencies between your packages.
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A GTK+ 3 update
Plans When we started development towards GTK+ 4, we laid out a plan that said GTK+ 3.22 would be the final, stable branch of GTK+ 3. And we've stuck to this for a while. I has served us reasonably well — GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally...
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Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
As of 1.9.0, GitHub Actions is available in your terminal. Two new top-level commands, `gh run` and `gh workflow`, provide insight into workflow runs.
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Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
How to use splits in Vim.