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One Chart, Twelve Charting Libraries
I recreated the same chart with twelve frameworks & libraries, like d3.js, Vega, ggplot 2, matplotlip and Processing.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,537 posts.
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Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes
How I fit a graphical game in C# into 2 kilobytes, with no .NET runtime required.
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Space Invaders from Scratch
In this series of posts, I am going to create a clone of the classic arcade game, space invaders, in C++ using only a few dependencies. In this post I will set up a window with an OpenGL 3.3 context u
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Two handy GDB breakpoint tricks
Over the past couple months I’ve discovered a couple of handy tricks for working with GDB breakpoints. I figured these out on my own, and I’ve not seen either discussed elsewhere, so I really ought to share them.
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Doom Rendered via Checkboxes
WebAssembly meets 16000 HTML checkboxes.
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Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2
All BNT162b2 vaccine data on this page is sourced from this World Health Organization document. This is a living page, shared already so people can get going! But check back frequently for updates. Translation: Français / 日本語 In short: the vaccine mRNA has been optimized by the manufacturer by changing bits of RNA…
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Painting in Clojure
Learning Clojure by building a digital Jackson Pollock. This article and the source code backing it can be found on GitHub . Below is an example of what we will be building, running the code found in this page.
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Shells are two things
Command languages and scripting languages are and should be different things.
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Docker Is Four Things
Docker is not just a way of running programs on Linux without a virtual machine. Docker is 4 things.
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Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
I spent some more time with Python and started to realize that I needed something more. Here's a brief list of the reasons why I switched to Clojure.
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The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
When we think “a fast AOT WebAssembly compiler and runtime”, we typically think about V8, Wasmer, WasmEdge or Wasmtime.
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Stepping Away from Sass
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.}
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Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...
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Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)
Earlier this week, I did the keynote at TLA+ conf 2024 ( watch the video or check out the slides ). My message in the keynote was something I have believed to be true for a long time: formal methods are an important part of good software engineering practice. If you’re a software engineer, especially one working on…
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The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub
I could write a lot of things about the Github acquisition by Microsoft. About Github's embrace and extend of git, and how it passed unnoticed by people who now fear the same thing now that Microsoft is in the picture. About the stultifying effects of Github's centralization, and its retardant effect on general…
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Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance
If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. What’s fast, what’s slow? What’s harder to do, what’s easier? I wouldn’t know how to look up answers for those questions, but I can write programs.
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Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
David Beazley on Twitter said:
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A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)
An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
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Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
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Constraints in Go
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets . Let’s geek out.
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Lua for Elixir
Execute sandboxed Lua code on the BEAM VM using Luerl
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Git as a debugging tool
Debugging with Git Grep, Git Blame, Git Log and Git Bisect
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Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application