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On programming without malloc
Day 36: On programming without malloc
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How many CPU cores can you use in parallel?
Figuring out how much parallelism your program can use is surprisingly tricky.
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My tmux setup
I’ve been using tmux as my main terminal multiplexer for about 3 years now and have refined my configuration over time to fit my daily workflow. Which is usually a mix of writing code, chef recipes, remote login into different servers and various shell tasks. This is a flexible setup that doesn’t concentrate too much…
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Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
So far, we’ve only really touched on some of the fundamentals of reverse engineering with one game example, but this time we’re looking at something a bit different. Shenmue (1999) is widely known for its pursuit of realism and has remained an influential series to this day, with its third game releasing in 2019. This…
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The Benchmarkpocalypse
There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse.
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Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
In our 54th reading group meeting, we were looking for an answer to an important question in the distributed systems community: “What about Raft?” We looked at the “ Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? ” paper to try to find the answer. As always, we had an excellent presentation, this…
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WASM is not quite a stack machine
Everyone knows Wasm is a stack machine. Wikipedia says so, the official Wasm design specification says so, you get it. I thought so too. That is, until I started writing Wasm code – not compiling for Wasm, but writing the instructions by hand. And I found out that there exists a major difference between Wasm and all…
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Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back
Using Haskell, R, Python, SQLite, and Elasticsearch, we data mine Hacker News front page stories and their back page counterparts for patterns.
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Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
I know how to decode UTF-8 using bitmath and some LUTs (see https://github.com/skeeto/branchless-utf8 ), but if I want to to go from a codepoint to UTF-8, is there a way to do it without branches?
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Making a GTK Video Player with Haskell
Using Haskell, GTK+, GStreamer, xlib, and the haskell-gi bindings, we build a video player complete with seek and volume controls.
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Some Git internals
Here is my test file tree. There are two files and a "src" subdirectory, where another two files are stored:
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How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch
Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and persistence in Docker or Kubernetes much easier to grasp.
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Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment
I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.
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Learn Python ASTs, by building your own linter
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Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks
My name is Taras Kloba, Chief Partner Architect at Microsoft. This blog captures my journey through data engineering, certifications, and technology insights.
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Writing a C Compiler, Part 5
This is the fifth post in a series. Read part 1 here.
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Why UML “Really” Died
There's this post going around the internet called Has UML died without anyone noticing?, In the piece, Ernesto Garbarino says that UML was killed by...
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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 I'm Productive in Clojure (2013)
Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development
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Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
Discover the hidden power of Svelte – the JavaScript framework that feels like déjà vu. Uncover how Svelte simplifies web development, reimagining JS.
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Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
Running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal, by Mustafa Akın.