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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!
I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.
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…
12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies? . This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer.
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…
Every once in a while, I find that someone is interested in AngularJS, but not sure if they should stick to their jQuery comfort zone or mak...
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…
A story of finding, understanding, and fixing a memory leak in our Rails app. With graphs and code!
I graduated with a Computer Science minor from the University of Virginia in 1992. The reason it’s a minor and not a major is because to major in CS at UVa you had to go through the Engineering School, and I was absolutely not cut out for that kind
This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk on file safety with a mobile-friendly non-bloated format .
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down. The other day I was discussing Tabby…
Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. As a cross-stitch As a pillow This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one … Continue reading curl is just…
I just read the blog post that got some traction on HN last night, entitled “ What the hell is happening to rails? ” It goes on to list a litany of complaints against changes in Rails 3.x, ranging from the default commenting of the catch-all route to, yes, of course, CoffeeScript. They all end up sounding a lot like…
As you might already know, I’m into containers , static configuration and self-service infrastructures . Naturally, I love Kubernetes , which I consider the most promising cluster scheduler around.
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You are born with no body parts. One by one, your organs are pushed into you. Should anyone attempt to interact with you before your organs have finished arriving you will die. Luckily this doesn&#…
A review of the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer, updated for modern software development.
Leo de Moura on Formal Proofs, AI Agents, and the End of “Trust Me” Code. Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • … More
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.
How to draw text to a Vulkan renderpass without binding a single texture
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and local variables).
Isn’t it weird that we treat source code as text? That is, we have this extremely well-structured and strongly-typed object — the abstract syntax tree — that exists conceptually in our minds, and in actuality inside of our compiler, but for some reason we pretend it’s just a pile of bytes and edit it byte-by-byte…
A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.
How a seemingly minor enhancement in Postgres 11 fills one of the system’s biggest operational holes.
Git is a fast, flexible but challenging distributed version control system. Before jumping in: Along with a book, tutorial and cheatsheet, here are the…
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