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Keeping track of technical debt in source code
How to use simple TODO comments in code to track technical debt
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
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NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)
You know how it is when you take a quick look at a framework for organising your dotfiles, and end up installing and configuring a new Linux operating system on an old MacBook Air? No? Just me then.
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Avoid Mini-Frameworks
I work in Google Ads in the past several years. Over time, I've seen one pattern came along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks.
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
Articles and programs by Elias Naur
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Time is not a synchronization primitive
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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I dumped Apple’s word list
macOS ships a VulgarWordUsage.db and a dictionary that rates every word as vulgar, offensive or sensitive. Dumped for 199,000 English words and a dozen other languages.
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UI = f(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
How inappropriate data access patterns massively slow down programs and how the same problems arise with RESTful APIs.
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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
Derek's Personal Portfolio/Blog
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ASCII-Driven Development
~15 years ago, we had Balsamiq Mockups (2008). Deliberately sketchy. Intentionally low-fidelity. The comic-sans-looking wireframes were a…
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Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?
Another question might be; why do machine learning at all? I'm not big into ML/AI though I've been poking it more recently as the open models, such as Stable Diffusion and the more practical Whisper, caught my curiosity. I have a very decent GPU (3090 Ti) and I've poked around a bit. I don't consider ML a super…
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Why “process substitution” is a late feature in Unix shells
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Storing Times for Human Events
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an …
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Driving Compilers
I remember how pleasant it was to learn to program in C. There were so many good books explaining not only the language but also the standard library. I devoured both The C Programming Language (K&R) by Kernighan/Ritchie and The Standard C Library by P.J. Plauger. Then came Expert C Programming by Van der Linden and…
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Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife
This article shows the obscure but useful capabilities of Hash, a simple but equally powerful data structure in Ruby.
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Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It’s currently only available via their Codex CLI tool …
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Which NPM package has the largest version number?
I spent way too much time on this
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Notes on Software Quality
“The absence of problems” is the best definition I can come up with for quality.
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The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
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The danger of hidden functional roles
There’s a collection of friends that I have a standing videochat with every couple of weeks. We had been meeting at 8am, but several people developed conflicts at that time, including me. I h…
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Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust
The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper. The idea was to introduce an alternative implementation of HTTP internals that you could ……
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Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex library
Going through the steps of using cargo fuzz to find bugs in Rust projects
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What the Flux?
Flux by Facebook is an architectural pattern for using their React library. This post helps explain flux in easy to understand ways.
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Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011)
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/acer.jpg"/> If you have a web site with a search function, you will rapidly realize that most mortals are terrible typists. Many searches contain mispelled words, and users will expect these searches to magically work. This magic is often done using levenshtein distance. In…