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The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't
Much has been written about a purported OpenSSH vulnerability. On closer inspection, the reports actually got most of their facts wrong. Rea...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,543 posts.
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Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha
Learning about the subtle gotcha with ARG and FROM instruction ordering in Dockerfile definitions.
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Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL
Learn how to use PostgreSQL with the Go programming language using the pgx driver and toolkit in a very productive manner. Furthermore, with the provided source code, you'll be able to learn how to write efficient and sound unit and integration tests, ready to be run locally or on a Continuous Integration environment…
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Unintuitive JSON Parsing
Despite the goal of JSON being a subset of JavaScript — which it failed to achieve (update: this was fixed ) — parsing JSON is quite unlike parsing a programming language. For invalid inputs, the specific cause of error is often counter-intuitive. Normally this doesn’t matter, but I recently ran into a case where it…
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Assault by GC
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
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JSX in detail
JSX react in depth - an interactive tutorial
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Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations
Synchronizing threads at a lower level.
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How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
Edit (June 2018): Unicode 11 is released, containing the half stars. Now the wait for font support... Star characters (☆★) have long b...
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Try to fix it one level deeper
I had a productive day today! I did many different and unrelated things, but they all had the same unifying theme:
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Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
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Rust from 0 to 80% for JavaScript Developers
Learn Rust to 80% in 5 minutes by leveraging your existing JavaScript knowledge. In this article, I list a number of differences Rust has compared to JS that is crucial to understanding it.
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Notes on Software Development Waste
Sedano et al (2017)[1] on "Software Development Waste" identified and describe that software projects manifest nine possible types of waste, in terms of loss of productivity and unnecessary friction.
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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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AM – Attribute Modules for CSS
A few months ago, I read an article by Harry Roberts where he introduced an interesting concept for working with related classes in CSS. In his article, he describes the use of the [] characters in class attributes to help understand their purpose at a quick glance. He presents this example, arguing that it makes the…
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Typed Programs Don't Leak Data
Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble, blog, and personal revelations.
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How to get stock fundamentals data with Python
Learn how to download fundamentals data with Python using the yahoo_fin package, including P/E and P/S ratios, return on equity, and more.
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PyPy.js: First Steps
I've been spending a lot of time in JavaScript land lately. It's not totally unexpected – when I first applied for a job with Mozilla, I was warned only semi-jokingly that "they hire all the best Python programmers and then force them to write JavaScript". I've no deep love or hate for it as a language, but JavaScript…
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Waitin' (on Leiningen)
UPDATE: This post now contains obsolete information. Please read the new ClojureScript Quick Start instead
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Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95%
A flash of intuition while trying to find a way to lend brian d foy a hand in his search for excellent numbers helped me reduce run time by 95 percent.