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To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth th…
Why a Rust developer might feel at home in Gleam, and where the BEAM is a different world.
For the past several weeks, I've been trying to fix a cranky spec in Karafka integrations suite, which in the end, lead me to become a Ruby on Rails micro-contributor and submitting similar fix to several other high-popularity projects from the Ruby ecosystem. Here's my story of trying to make sense of my specs and […]
In my last post about Zig and Rust, I mentioned that Rust is a scalable language. Let me expand on this a bit.
On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising "easter egg" to users of Claude Code: `2.1.198` includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human.
Microservices work best as a polytree with clear dependencies and no cycles. Learn how this structure reduces complexity and makes systems easier to scale and maintain.
Famously, engineers tend to make wrong assumptions about a lot of things: Names and time are two well-known examples. Maps are a rich source of edge cases. Especially when you start dealing with gl…
Jujutsu (`jj`) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google. I have been using it full time for 6 months. Here’s why you should switch, too.
Software development blog of Joe Wright
In the last 10 years many new text editors became available for Mac OS X. Since I have tried most of them I wanted to give an overview and a brief description about each one of them. This is for developers that are looking for decent editors on the mac to get their job done.
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Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
Writing a faster wc utility in Go
A look at three relics of a not-quite-bygone era. In picture-listicle form.
Difference between strings and symbols in Ruby
I noticed today that Evernote was in the Windows Store. I went to the store, ...
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
I wrote a lambda-calculus interpreter and an implementation of Hindley-Milner to type check it.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Learning how htmx works by building one from scratch.
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.” — Steve Yegge There you have it. Think about it. It doesn’t really matter …
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
Let's revisit some programming myths and see how harmful they have been to our industry.
