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Your "simulation" might not need state
The bouncing DVD logo is a fun and easy coding project. Watching Daniel Shiffman code it in p5.js is one of my earliest programming memories. However, the naive solution is far from optimal.
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Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
In software, it is common to represent time as a time-stamp string. It is usually specified by a time format string. Some standards use the format %Y%m%d%H%M%S meaning that we print the year, the month, the day, the hours, the minutes and the seconds. The current time as I write this blog post would be … Continue…
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You can't do that because I hate you
An infuriating pattern that devs need to stop.
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The 90s Developer Starter Pack
Experiencing Windows 95 Exploration Box Installation Like People In Early 90s.
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Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (2004)
“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?
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C++23: Removing garbage collection support
If we go through the list of C++23 features, we can stumble upon the notion of garbage collection twice. Once among the language and once among the library features. Both entries refer to the same paper (P2186R2): garbage collection (GC in short) support is getting removed from C++. Just to make it clear, it’s not…
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Type system of Fortnite's Verse language
Epic Games released an initial public implementation of the Verse programming language. Verse has been designed by some people who really know what they’re doing:
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Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets
I've had the experience of using GitHub as a maintainer for very large open source projects (1000+ contributors), as an engineer for very large closed source corporate projects, and everything smaller. Through those experiences up to today, GitHub pull requests is where I spend almost all of my time while on GitHub…
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Mistakes I made as an engineer, but had to become a manager to see
I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed.
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QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
L.C. Bakken technical blog
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Optimizing Open Addressing
Your default hash table should be open-addressed, using Robin Hood linear probing with backward-shift deletion. When prioritizing deterministic performance over memory efficiency, two-way chaining is also a good choice.
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Python: Just Write SQL
I have been writing a lot more Go this past year. For those not familiar, Go favours a non-ORM, non-query-builder approach to interacting with databases. This comes naturally due to the sql package : A common interface to be used alongside database drivers. It’s very common to see actual SQL in Go, even in large…
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter
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The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)
In this long article, I, being as far as I know the first outside Microsoft to have learnt how the AARD code works, explain that I condemn its form but broadly sympathise with its function.
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I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets
I analyzed stackoverflow for secrets and leaks.
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Finetuning Large Language Models
An introduction to the core ideas and approaches
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Hypervisor Development in Rust
In the ever-evolving field of information security, curiosity and continuous learning drive innovation. This blog series is tailored for those deeply engaged in experimental projects, leveraging Rust’s capabilities to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The focus on Rust, after exploring various programming…
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Testing a 1,000 player Minecraft server with Folia
Check out the impressive results of the large-scale Folia test that took place on June 18th, 2023. Learn more about our findings and technical challenges in this post.
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Coroutines make robot code easy
Our FIRST Robotics team struggled with autonomous code for years. Coroutines were the missing piece.
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Local async executors and why they should be the default
Imagine you are new to Rust and you want to learn some async programming. Writing a chat server is a common way to start, scope is small enough to contain in a blog post, yet it is complex enough to learn most of what you'll need to build async servers in Rust. One DuckDuckGo query and we are off to the races…
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Breaking java.lang.String
Let's abuse a bug in java.lang.String
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The combined power of F# and C#
Where C# is the most dominant language in the .NET world, other languages are built on top of the Framework that deserves their respective place. F# is strong when it comes down to functional programming! In this blog post, we will leverage the power of F# and C# to showcase where both excel!
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The anatomy of a Godot API call
UPDATE: This article has started an ongoing conversation with the Godot devs. They care about the issues raised, and would like to improve things. Significant improvements will almost certainly be made, although it’s still early days and it’s unclear what will change and by how much. I am encouraged by the response. I…
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Filenames and pathnames in shell: How to do it correctly (2020)
This article explains how to correctly handle filenames in Bourne shells (the primary shell of Unix/Linux/POSIX systems), based on the issues discussed in 'Fixing Unix/Linux/Filenames'. Many programs fail to work properly on filenames that include spaces, begin with dash (-), include newlines, and so on, because…
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My first superoptimizer
I heard about these mythical programs that find optimal code through a brute-force search, but I didn't know how they worked. So I made one.
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“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)
You had things running with occasional glitches and there was always an excuse “It works in my machine” as there is rarely identical…
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