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Rust as the New C Part 1: Building and Combining Native Libs into C API
Evaluating Rust as the common denominator of modern development
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 874 posts.
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Making Sandspiel
Sandspiel is a falling sand game I built in late 2018. I really enjoyed writing this game, and wanted to put into writing some of my goals, design decisions, and learnings from that process. If you’re reading this but haven’t played sandspiel, you should probably go try it !
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Writing Apps in Go and Swift
A guide for wrapping Go code in Swift for use within a native macOS or iOS application.
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Incremental Learning – A continuous learning approach (2018)
A few days back I read an article about how Bitcoin’s price can be sufficiently explained by Metcalfe’s law. As you read through the post, resist the temptation to click the links to learn more about Bitcoin, Metcalfe’s law etc. (Maybe you should read about Bitcoin if you have not heard of it). I have provided all the…
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Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014)
SAT is often described as the "mother of all NP-complete problems." This post goes over what SAT is and why it is considered to be so important. A simple SAT solver is implemented using Python in the process.
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Go 1.13: xerrors
Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new error inspection proposal .
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Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
GraphQL offers a lot more than reduced round trips.
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McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Preload, prefetch and other link tags
There’re lots of ways to improve web performance (see Web Performance 101 for a full overview). One of those ways is to preload content you’ll need later in advance. Prefetch a CSS file, prerender a full page, or resolve a domain ahead of time – and you won’t have to wait for it when it’s actually needed! Sounds cool.
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A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
Should I teach myself to code or get a college CS degree? This is a question that many face. Software development is a field that is heavily reliant on skills. So surely teaching yourself to code should be enough right? Wrong.
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Exploring Mathematics with Matplotlib and Python
Data Visualization can be a great tool for mathematical exploration and experimentation. In this article, I show you an example using Matplotlib and Python.
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C++ UI Libraries
A list of free, cross-platform GUI solutions for C++.
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
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“Essentials of Garbage Collectors” full course is now available
Course overview Memory leaks and dangling pointers are the main issues of the manual memory management. You delete a parent node in a linked list, forgetting to delete all its children first -- and your
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Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
In one part of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is neither about Zen nor motorcycle maintenance, there are two motorcycles and two riders. John Sutherland is a romanticist who appreciates the external qualities of his motorcycle: its aesthetics, and its use as a vehicle. The narrator is a…
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Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8
Minus zero behaves like zero, right?
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Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
Aleksey Shipilёv, JVM/Performance Geek, Shout out at Twitter: @shipilev Questions, comments, suggestions: aleksey@shipilev.net
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Understanding the BeagleBone’s built in microcontrollers (2016)
The BeagleBone Black is an inexpensive, credit-card sized computer that has two built-in microcontrollers called PRUs. While the PRUs provi...
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FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
TLDR: Here is the code to explore.
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A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript
The globalThis proposal introduces a unified mechanism to access the global this in any JavaScript environment. It sounds like a simple thing to polyfill, but it turns out it’s pretty hard to get right. I didn’t even think it was possible until Toon blew my mind with an unexpected, creative solution.
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O(N^2) in CreateProcess
So many possible introductions to this one: Windows 7: Sheesh, I sure am slow at creating processes Windows 10: Hold my beer… Or how about: A) How long does CreateProcess take on Windows? B) How lo…
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The Essence of Datalog (2018)
Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble, blog, and personal revelations.
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Good Code Design from Linux
Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux …
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A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#