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As much as I love digital instruments, synthesizers and other electronic gear I also really love the look and feel of instruments made from wood, brass, steel and felt. There is objectively no difference between the best digitally sampled pianos but for some reason it doesn’t quite feel as much alive as an actual…
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
I’ve got a big news to share with you today - after (over) 9 years of development, Emacs Prelude finally made it to version 1.0! There’s nothing really big or groundbreaking there, as Prelude has been in a pretty good place for a very long time feature-wise, but I felt like tagging a 1.0 release, because it’s 2020 and…
I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations…
Short version: the full text of my Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages book (second printing, 1991) is now available. This page has more details including the table of chapters, and a link to the PDF (3.3MB, 448 + xvi pages). The book is a survey of methods for language description, particularly…
This post follows up on OCaml for Haskellers from Edward Z. Yang (2010) and my own Haskell for OCaml programmers from earlier this year. Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/rust-for-functional-programmers.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Prologue Rust for C…
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Ed25519 signature validation criteria vary widely between implementations, creating risks for consensus systems. Here's why and how to fix it.
Since seeing the city generation from the shelved Introversion Software game “Subversion” in action , I’ve wanted to to try writing a basic procedural city generator myself. The developers followed a method described in Parish and Müller’s paper: Procedural Modelling of Cities (2001) . The paper is well-written and…
This essay says that inheritance is harmful and if possible you should "ban inheritance completely". You see these arguments a lot, as well as things like...
Someone : Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me : Yeah! It's really convenient, don't you think? Someone : That's THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I've ever heard. Don't FB and Google know what a terrible idea it is to put all your code in a single repo? Me : I think engineers at FB and Google are…
This is a beginner-friendly post exploring some of my favourite parts of the D programming language , ranging from smaller quality of life stuff, to more major features.
The five most popular JS frameworks – Angular, React, Vue, Svelte and Blazor – use different rendering strategies, and it shows.
I recently wrote about completing Advent of Code 2022 using a different programming language (or two) every day for 25 days.
[ Update Nov 27: This post had issues, and I retract some of my more provocative claims. See the errata at the end. ]
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
A post about all the things I find good about Julia.
The Google informs me that Ryan Carson got his degree at Colorado State University.
Armed with a download of my 240,000 text message and Whatsapp history, I was able to fine-tune an LLM to create convincing conversations.
mypy assisted error handling, exception mechanisms in other languages, fun with pattern matching and type variance
Matyáš Racek's blog
Way back in June, in Replacing Python: second round, I wrote: The big surprise for me in these tests was how little you lose going from Python to …
