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This is the last post I plan to do on parsing LLVM’s bitcode, at least for a while. I’ll keep working on the various libraries that I’ve started under the mollusc umbrella, but they won’t be accompanied by regular posts anymore — I’d like to refocus on writing smaller, less dense (read: lower-pressure) posts for a…
Unicode definitely added a lot of complexity to string handling, and people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified. However, I'm a non-ASCII language speaker who's old enough to remember the alternatives, and the alternatives are far worse than the complexity of Unicode.
It's been a while since the last update about my work on the Inko programming language . Not because there hasn't been any progress, but because I've been busy making changes. A lot of changes.
Functional programming is an increasing popular programming paradigm with many languages building or already supporting it. Go already supports some of these features such as first-class and higher order functions and enabling functional programming.
I feel like there's a lot of misinformation around this topic and I've been hoping I could address that in a way that could be convincing even for those who can't stand hearing the word
In 1999, Lutz Prechelt published a seminal article on the COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM (October 1999/Vol. 42, No. 10) called Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Differences to Interpersonal Differences , henceforth Java VS C , which seems to have later (March 2000) been expanded into a full paper, An empirical comparison…
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
Hello, if this is your first time reading this, I'm luna, one half of LavaTech and we provide continuous integration (CI) services for th...
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This infamous answer [https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7488] on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible - and you will surely go mad if you try. The
It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App.
The interviewer couldn’t help but notice her name, Nephele . It sounds Greek. But he didn’t ask, not wanting to get off on the wrong foot with the promising candidate. He made a mental note to look up the name afterwards.
The most effective engineers I’ve worked with were effective not just because of how they wrote code, but because of things they did when they were not writing code. Here’s my (growing)…
The answer should be something close to ALPHA , i.e. 0.01 . What R was printing out was weird numbers like 1e-10 .
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest
<p>The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works.</p> <p>A...
Cattle not pets The majority of AWS EC2 I need to operate these days are members of Kubernetes clusters. For remote access to them I’m more commonly authenticating to the Kube API to spawn a privileged ephemeral debugger pod rather than accessing the host directly. I have little need for host access even for the…
I was 9 years old. A revision of the notebook containing my first Z80 assembly language program
This post is a basic introduction to running HTTPS servers and clients in Go using TLS. It assumes some familiarity with public-key crypto. Feel free to check out my earlier posts about RSA and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange ; TLS uses the elliptic-curve version of Diffie-Hellman. I won't be covering how the protocol…
Pipes has been dead since 2015 or so, but I used it for a long time and it was essential to my daily news intake, so I’ve been building a personal ...
This is a followup to my previous post, prefix sum on Vulkan. Last year, I got a fancy algorithm for this problem running well on one device. This time, I will dive into the question of how to make it work well across a wide range of devices. The short answer is, it can be made to work pretty portably on Vulkan and…
Measuring your Python program’s memory usage is not as straightforward as you might think. Learn two techniques, and the tradeoffs between them.
Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
I hate the expression “best practice”, it’s so, so often used by someone to justify the application of cargo cult without actually understanding why.
Index A tiny ABI An ABI to appease the linker Catching what you throw Magic around __cxa_begin_catch and __cxa_end_catch Gcc...
I’ve seen a lot of poorly implemented spinlocks floating around the internet.
The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.
