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Back in 2016, an intriguing article appeared on Reddit: “Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently?”. The author discussed if expert programmers use google more often than novice coders. He mentioned that using google is a good thing. It helps to find the best solutions, validate ideas, speed the development…
I've been wanting to write a big project in Rust for a while as a learning exercise, and actually started one in late 2018 (a FUSE server implementation). But then life happened and I got busy and never went anywhere with it. Due to certain world circumstances I'm currently spending a lot of time indoors so rust-fuse…
Junctions, whatevers, hypers, and more!
Most code editors color different pieces of your program in different ways. For instance, they’ll make keywords like if bold and bright so that you notice when you’ve misspelled them. They’ll make non-executable parts like comments and documentation fainter so that you know that the computer isn’t seeing that part of…
A while ago, I’ve been working on a very large codebase that consisted of a few million lines of code. Large systems are usually a big mess and this one was no exception. Since this is a rather common problem in software engineering, I thought the internet would be littered with stories about this topic. There is a…
The SPA path is dark and full of terrors. You can bravely fight those… or choose a different path that takes you to a similar destination…
Usually, x86 tutorials don’t spend much time explaining the historical perspective of design and naming decisions. When learning x86 assembly, you’re usually told something along the lines: Here’s EAX . It’s a register. Use it.
The Mill is a new general-purpose high-performance processor design from out-of-the-box computing ( http://ootbcomp.com/ ). They claim to beat typical high-end out-of-order (OOO) designs like the Intel Haswell generation by crazy factors, such as being 2.3x faster while using 2.3x less power compared to a Haswell. All…
The docker registry is bursting at the seams. At the time of this writing, a search for “node” gets just under 1000 hits. How does one choose?
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Mario Maker 2 API, created Thursday, February 10, 2022
A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.
Khám phá những chuyển động mới nhất của thể thao thế giới với tin tức, sự kiện, giải đấu, màn trình diễn ấn tượng và câu chuyện nổi bật từ nhiều bộ môn hấp dẫn.
We’ll spend the rest of this book illuminating every dark and sundry corner of the Lox language, but it seems cruel to have you immediately start grinding out code for the interpreter without at least a glimpse of what we’re going to end up with.
After getting to work on some personal projects using Go+HTMX+Templ this year, I have decided to give up on using React on any personal projects. You can actually find a lot of compelling arguments for ditching React in favor of HTMX in the essays found in the HTMX official website. But I feel that not that many…
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
A CLI tool is not an app, and none of you are reading the docs as carefully as you think you are
I am overjoyed to announce MaskerAid, my latest iOS app, which you can use to quickly and easily add emoji to images.
Ustun Ozgur - Software Consultant and Engineer. Expert solution architect and programmer in Python (Django), JavaScript (React), .NET, Clojure and Java.
I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.
A critical but informative look at the new structural pattern matching feature in Python 3.10, with real-world code examples.
This post will be different from the previous ones, since I’m going to present some of the early results of my work as a PhD student at the Prosecco team in ...
Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new role and the new team. I mean, really… How much […]
