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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
Learn how to create a Python program that sends you an SMS text message whenever an event happens, such as university class registration opens.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 526 posts.
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‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in the eye of the beholder
The C Language Before we start, let’s get something straight; for over 30 years now I have had a love-hate relationship with the C programming language. The ‘engineer’ in me[1] sometimes just cannot believe we are still using C as the dominant embedded programming languages after all these years, and yet, I also see…
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How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox
Compiler warnings are mostly good: they identify real problems, and when false positives do occur they are usually easy to work around. However, if they’re not fatal, they tend to be ignored and build up. (See bug 187528 for an idea!)
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Run your own OAuth2 server
Run a free OAuth2 Server and OpenID Connect (OIDC) server using open source software in under 10 minutes, and become an OAuth2 provider like Google.
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
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Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
After rewriting just a few of the slow methods for my Rails site in Rust
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Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we…
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The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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When Bash scripts bite
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from using shell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader to...
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PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.7 (an interpreter supporting Python v2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.7 (an in...
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Mono's New .NET Interpreter
Mono is complementing its Just-in-Time compiler and its static compiler with a .NET interpreter allowing a few new ways of running your code.
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How I Start: Go (2014)
Go is a lovely little programming language designed by smart people you can trust and continuously improved by a large and growing open-source community .
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Ghost 1.0
About four years ago we launched Ghost on Kickstarter as a tiny little prototype of an idea to create the web's next great open source blogging platform. In the early days we really just focused on just making everything work. Ghost was one of the very first open source
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Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code
There are many great coding principles, but it can be hard to keep them all in your head at once. Instead, I try to remember these three attitudes.
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CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web
The heart of the new CKEditor Ecosystem is undoubtedly our brand new editor, CKEditor 5.
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A 1 KB Docker Container
Field notes from a software developer
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RISC-V port submitted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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How to Version an API
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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Red Programming Language 0.6.3
This new Red release contains ~830 commits, closes 86 issues , and brings a large number of new features. The main one is official support...
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