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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
I talk about tree sitter, CEDET, and Combobulate -- my "paredit-style" package that's designed to work with most programming languages.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,020 posts.
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Stages of Denial
It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps you were idly browsing your favorite news aggregator, or visiting The Orange Website to wade through murky startup groupthink in search of interesting links.
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Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
Okay, but apart from generics and fuzzing, what has Go 1.18 ever done for us?
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Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)
I’ve seen people be genuinely puzzled about why functional programming is not more popular. For example I’m currently reading “Out of the Tar Pit” where after arguing for fu…
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Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
One of the most popular arguments against Emacs is that it is “a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor”. The promotion of the idea of “Living in Emacs” by some of the hardcore Emacs users only make this argument more compelling. At the first glance, using a single program for “everything” does seem to…
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Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work in architecture roles alongside experienced software/technical/solution architects. Through observing others and my own trial and error,...
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How to learn compilers: LLVM Edition
A collection of resources to start learning compilers (with a focus on LLVM)
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How Tail Call Optimization Works
Most undergraduate computer sciences courses teach students about tail call optimization (TCO) , and even if you don't have a formal computer science background the concept is talked about enough that you might be familiar with it anyway, especially if you've ever done any functional programming. However, I think the…
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My thoughts about the Principal role
Am I a manager? No. In some cases, people may report to me from an organisational point of view but my way to manage is "don't manage at all" and let the team self organize with my help. I tend to focus more on the team and processes and less on people. I'm not a manager, I try to be a technical leader. Organizations…
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Get Started with Tmux
Before getting started with tmux, let us go over some questions to see if tmux is right for you:
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Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods
tl;dr CocoaPods is a popular package manager used by lots of iOS apps (among other Swift and Objective-C Cocoa applications). I found a remote code execution...
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
Tools and techniques used to test coreutils
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Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending…
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Writing Pythonic Rust
Over the past several weeks I have been attempting to reimplementthe API of an existing python library as a wrapper for an equivalent library inRust.
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A rabbit hole full of Lisp
Profiling Emacs and writing some Lisp to work with a 70000-file monorepo.
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GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas
I’ve been leading a team at my dayjob to migrate every engineering team to GitHub Actions (GHA)
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Flow-Based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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Understanding Connections and Pools
What connections are, how they affect our systems, and how and why pooling works.
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The stack monoid revisited
This is a followup to my previous post on the stack monoid, but is intended to be self-contained.
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Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Why bugs might feel “impossible”
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
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The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
"Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated"
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Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
My Functional Programming journey was filled with dead ends, false starts, failed attempts and frustration. And I suspect that I’m not…
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Smart contracts on Bitcoin
While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, particularly smart contracts, to the table. Smart contracts allow developers to easily build things on a blockchain and we have seen a proliferation of new things built on the Ethereum blockchain as a result. But what if…
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