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AngularJS: The Bad Parts
Hey! If you do front end development, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a JavaScript error logging service that doesn’t suck. Below is a graph over the amount of searches for AngularJ…
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,536 posts.
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A Mac Podcast App You Can't Have
I wasn't going to write this post because I've already said most of what I wanted to on Twitter [http://twitter.com/steve228uk]. Yesterday though, I changed my mind when I saw this Tweet from Product Hunt. > The Best Podcast Apps for Mac 🎙️🖥️ Add your favorite 👉 https://t.
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Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit
I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far.
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Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers
In software programming, the product between two integers is often computed to a fixed number of bits with overflow. Consider 8-bit integers. If you multiply 127 by 127, you get back the number 1 as an 8-bit unsigned integer, with an overflow. The actual full product is 16129. To represent 16129, you typically use 16…
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Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript
Chris Haynes - web developer consultant
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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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Secure by Design
I really like Secure by Design. The key idea is that there is a big overlap between secure code and good software design. Code that is strict, clear and focused will be easier to reason about, and …
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Opus 1.2 Released
For music encoding Opus has already been shown to out-perform other audio codecs at both 64 kb/s and 96 kb/s . We originally thought that 64 kb/s was near the lowest bitrate at which Opus could be useful for streaming stereo music. However, with variable bitrate (VBR) improvements in Opus 1.1, suddenly 48 kb/s became…
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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Gleam, Coming from Erlang
I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little feed aggregator. These are my notes.
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The Mature Programmer
1. The Mature Programmer The mature programmer manages their own time and productivity well. The MP knows that maintenance is as much wo...
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Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
A detailed primer on Roaring bitmaps explaining what they are, how they're different from traditional bitmaps, and how they work internally.
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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because sp…
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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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Oberon (2009)
Steven Frank's essay on the current state of the desktop UI 1 reminded me of Oberon, a delightfully insane system I used back when I was studying computer science at ETH Zürich. The first thing you have to understand about Oberon is that it evolved entirely outside of the normal genealogy of user interfaces…
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How to stop functional programming
You go into work and discover that a coworker isn't happy with some code you wrote because they don't understand it. They go to your manager and tell them that you're being a problem by writing code they don't understand. Your manager, being very skilled in conflict resolution, makes a technical decision to avoid…
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Why I’m not leaving Python for Go
First of all, Go seems like a great language. It has an excellent tutorial which I joyfully went through and found: Go is Fast. Concurrent by design. Typed (important for JIT and IDE’s) but n…
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In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
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sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
Over the past year, I’ve been working on fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library. It is not a simple wrapper on top of libc; it doesn’t depend on libc except when required to by the platform. To my knowledge, there is nothing like it.
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React is the new jQuery
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.