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Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images
Last month, a few days before NASA’s New Horizons probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, I posted a GIF of it doing so to Reddit .
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 599 posts.
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The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't
Much has been written about a purported OpenSSH vulnerability. On closer inspection, the reports actually got most of their facts wrong. Rea...
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Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables
A few weeks ago CSS variables—more accurately known as CSS Custom Properties—shipped in Chrome Canary behind the Experimental Web Platform Features flag.[1] When Chrome engineer Addy Osmani first tweeted about the release, he was met with a surprising amount of negativity, hostility, and skepticism. At least, it was…
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Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics
I love Doom. Or, well, I love Doom 2, which is the game we actually had when I was nostalgia years old. I love the aesthetic — pixely in a 3D(ish) environment, and consistent in a way that meshes together really well. The classic levels are abstract (occasionally too abstract), but still detailed enough to feel like…
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More Rust compared to C++
More about the programming language Rust
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My Weird Ruby
Over the past year, I've been rewriting large portions of the Middleman codebase to better reflect how I like to write code (as opposed to the silly version of me who did the original version 6 years ago). I've learned a lot since then, spent pretty much every day writing mostly Javascript and trying to find any…
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Real time bidding in Erlang (2012)
I'm still on my way back from the Bay Area Erlang Factory 2012 (in fact I finished this post after coming back entirely), in San Francisco, and I've been starting to see a bunch of twitter posts regarding people posting their slides online. Although it is a good idea, I tend to view my slides as pure visual support…
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Instant Web Application
Instant TodoMVC demo (please use Chrome Desktop for now!), source Uses bottle-service library to implement self-rewriting Open your favorite web application, even a simple TodoMVC would work. Let it
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Binary in JavaScript
Over the last week or so, I've spent my spare time working on a new roguelike game, with a focus on extensive and interesting planet generation. A key characteristic of the genre is that the game world is procedurally generated and this one is no exception.
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Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)
In 2001, my favorite programming language was Python. In 2008, my favorite programming language was Scheme. In 2014, my favorite programming language …
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You are the WM
A window manager is a program that runs in the background, and give you keybinds and/or mouse moves to move/resize and arrange your windows on your screen.
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Designing a garbage collector in Rust
For a while I’ve been working on a garbage collector for Rust with Nika Layzell. I thought this would be a good time to talk of our design and …
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React Static Site
I built a doubly static site using React (inc react-router) and Webpack. You can see the current demo here on GitHub or continue reading the following post that explains the steps I took during this experiment. This post proves the basic concept and there will be a followup post covering the fine tuning needed to put…
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Debug your programs like they're closed source
Debug your programs like they're closed source!
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Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures
In this port to Swift of the great of Haskell's "Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures" we are going to look at these functional programming concepts aided by some very helpful pictures.
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Anyone Can Learn to Code an LSTM-RNN (Part 1: RNN)
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember
(even if you’re not that old)