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Only solve one new problem at a time
Ben Nadel discusses one of the lessons learned from 10 years of CodePen: solve only problem at a time - a message worth amplifying.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,001 posts.
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Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in Bash
Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem states that there are mathematical statements that can neither be proven or disproven. His proof is fairly difficult to ...
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Timsort (2019)
Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia. Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort for the Python programming language in 2001.
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What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
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Software Mise En Place
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
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Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd
A lot of application use systems like Kubernetes for their deployment. In my humble opinion it is often overkill as system, that offers most of the stuff such thing provide, is already present in your OS. In this article I will try to present how to utilise the most popular system supervisor from Elixir applications.
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A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later
Homepage of Carlin Eng
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
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Post-Apocalyptic Programming
In a post-apocalyptic future with no internet or stackoverflow, let's try to build a programming environment from scratch.
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We're Drowning
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
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An update on rust/coreutils
TLDR: we are making progress on the Rust implementation of the GNU coreutils. Well, it is an understatement to say my previous blog post interested many people. Many articles, blog posts and some …
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Curl doesn't add libproxy due to its quality issues
curl, along with every other Internet tool with aspirations, supports proxies. A proxy is a (usually known) middle-man in a network operation; instead of going directly to the remote end server, the client goes via a proxy. curl has supported proxies since the day it was born. Which proxy? Applications that do…
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Zero downtime migrations
As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...
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Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
Recently our development team had a small break in our feature delivery schedule. Technical leadership decided that this time would be…
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How boring should your team's codebases be
Thoughts on how to keep the novelty in a team at the correct level for easy onboarding
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Rust9x: Compile Rust code for Windows 95, NT and above
You might remember my old post about the journey to get at least a bit of Rust code working for Windows 98 SE . Well, I'm back, this time with a more ambitious package:
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Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul
I literally wrote the book on unsafe Rust . And the book on pointers in Rust . And redesigned the Rust’s pointer APIs . And designed the standard library’s abstraction for unsafe heap-allocated buffers . And maintain the alternative Vec layout .
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Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040
A look into the hardware design of Starfish
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Code doesn’t have to be a mess
High-level strategies to keep software simple as it evolves over time.
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Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
Go 1.18 is coming out soon. It's a huge release, but native fuzzing has a special place in my heart. Not much has been written yet on how Go's fuzzing system actually works, so I'll talk a bit about that here.
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A Journey into the Linux Scheduler
Two years ago more or less I started my journey in Linux. I was scared at first and I didn’t know where to start from. But then I decided to buy a book - and what a book! - in order to follow a path. Along the way, I integrated the material with up-to-date documentation from kernel.org and source code. In the…
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Phrases in computing that might need retiring
The upcoming issue of the SICPers newsletter is all about phrases that were introduced to computing to mean one thing, but seem to get used in practice to mean another. This annoys purists, pedants, and historians: it also annoys the kind of software engineer who dives into the literature to see how ideas were…
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Two Vexing Problems in Functional Programming
Matthew Butterick
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Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
In an article recently linked from reddit entitled Tour de Babel you can read (among lots of other nonsense): Heck, people still use Tcl as an embedded interpreter, even though Python is far superior to Tcl in every conceivable way -- except, that is, for the frost thing.
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Why train when you can optimize?
Multi-variable optimization is an incredibly useful tool for writing software. It allows you to specify a desired result and delegate finding the solution to a reliable algorithm. If you know what you want but not how to get it, optimization can probably help. Problems with many interacting variables that are…