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Linux tracing systems and how they fit together
Linux tracing systems & how they fit together
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,535 posts.
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First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
A series of articles about bare-metal programming for x86 PC-type computers, using Linux for development.
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Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
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Reversing Factorio's RNG
This post details how Factorio's random number generation works, how it can be reversed and how I used that knowledge to predict and manipulate the RNG with pure in‑game mechanics.
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Native dual-range input
Two native range inputs and fifty lines of JavaScript to make them work together.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
I first heard about The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python at PyCodeConf a few months ago. It's a fantastic idea: open source, community-driven documentation on how to do Python right: everything from how to learn Python, to how to write idiomatic code, to how to distribute your projects, to surveys of best-of-breed open…
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Learning containers from the bottom up
What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?
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SIMD in Pure Python
First of all, this article is an exercise in recreational "because I can" programming. If you just want to make your Python code go fast, this is perhaps not the article for you. And perhaps Python is not the language you want, either!
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Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions
For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been
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Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work
Not all developers make positive contributions. Some create more work for others than they do themselves.
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Some Insights from a Julia Developer
In this post I would like to reflect a bit on the Julia programming language. These are my personal views and I have had more than a year developing a lot of packages for the Julia programming language. After roaming around many different languages including R, MATLAB, C, and Python; Julia is finally a language I am…
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“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”
I have been job hunting in the last 2 months or so. Thankfully, I am settled with a company I admire now, and it seemed like I had more luck than the average job applicant. But among the handful of companies that I had the pleasure to interview with, I had my fair share of interesting moments.
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Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
I read this post “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases [from C++ to Rust]. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.” and it got me curious, how difficult is it really?
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Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
# TLDR Datastar is a new hypermedia framework that makes building real-time web applications simpler and more efficient. It prioritizes server-side logic, uses “signals” for automatic UI updates, and leverages Server-Sent Events for lightning-fast performance. If you’re looking for a streamlined alternative to…
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LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?
How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.
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Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function
Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:
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The Origin of Emacs in 1976
On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (Emacs blog articles)
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The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Programming blog of Eugene
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URLs are UI
What a great title. 'URLs are UI.' Pithy, clear, crisp. Very true. I've been ...
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Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming
Lately I’m writing lots of Rust , and I’m particularly interested in systems programming on unix. I’ve been using and contributing to a library called nix 1 , whose mission is to provide ‘Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs’.
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26 Programming Languages in 25 Days
Since making a sudden leap from computer science to academic medicine about seven years ago, I haven’t programmed as much.
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Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord
There is a pattern I am very fond of - “one database per tenant” in web applications with multiple, isolated users. Recently, I needed to fix an application I had for a long time where this database-per-tenant multitenancy utterly broke down, because I was doing connection management wrong. Which begat the question…
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PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
Yes, I know, it’s a long text, and it was my conscious decision to write it in this way. But fear not! Imagine that you read a book, take a look at the introduction and first few interesting sections, think about it and then find time to read further. I hope I’ve left enough references, so if you don’t get some ideas…
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The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1] . Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise.
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Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Writing is one of the most powerful forms of communication, and it’s useful in a multitude of roles and contexts. As a blog-writing , documentation-authoring , twitter-shitposting DevEx engineer I spend a lot of my time writing. Recently, someone paid me a very nice compliment about a blog I’d written and asked how…