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Anti-Personnel Computing (2023)
Neologisms for the current computing era.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard
Working with pure functions is simple: you pass arguments, you get a result — no side effects happen. If, on the other hand, a function does have side effects, like mutating its arguments or global objects, it's harder to reason about. But we've got used to those too: if you see something like player.set_speed(5) you…
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C++20: Building a Thread-Pool with Coroutines
Recently I’ve been rambling about the amazing improvements which will land with C++20 support in our toolchains. For those who haven’t had a look at those yet, I recommend checking out the summary in the following recent blog post: C++20: An Introduction. The Update We’ve All Been Waiting For? .
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Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command
Search your bash or zsh history incrementally with Control-R, step back with repeated presses, go forward with Control-S, and tune HISTFILE and HISTSIZE.
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Inline Assembly Dangers
Resolving PS2SDK Soft Reset Issues
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QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs
Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more.
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Baby Steps into Genetic Programming
While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing ( 280th ), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well.
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Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (2014)
Perverse incentives surrounding best practices
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Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021)
Yesterday Lauri Vasama showed me this awesome Godbolt: struct S { static std::unique_ptr<S> make() noexcept; ~S(); static std::unique_ptr<S> factory() { std::unique_ptr<S> s = S::make(); return M(s); } }; void take_ownership(S*) noexcept; void test() { std::unique_ptr<S> p = S::factory()…
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Floating point oddity
Code that shows how floating point arithmetic can go wrong, and how C and C++ can return different results for similar code.
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A Personal History of APL (1982)
October 1982 TR-03.214 A PERSONAL HISTORY OF APL by Michael S. Montalbano International Business Machines Corporation General Products Division Santa Teresa Laboratory San Jose, California A PERSONAL HISTORY OF APL Introduction I have several reasons for calling this talk a personal history. For one, I want to make it…
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Imagining a personal data pipeline
I've been thinking a lot about personal data lately: where it's stored, how to extract it, and what to do with it. Here's where I landed.
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The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
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Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
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Python's splitlines does more than just newlines
I always assumed that Python's str.splitlines() split strings by " universal newlines ", i.e., \n , \r , and \r\n .
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How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes
Remember how Justice Gray started that little fad about becoming a better developer in 6 months?
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Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming
How local, learnable routers can reduce token overhead, lower costs, and bring structure back to agentic workflows.
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Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System
MIT student who enjoys performance engineering, compilers, and creating unconventional code
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Zig's new CLI progress bar explained
Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results.
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Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
This post also appeared on perl.com.
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Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir
I did a livestream where I talked about Object Storage. The how and why. The Bad Old Days. And also the neat and interesting stuff just beyond the basics. I figured I'd cover that in text as well.
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Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)
OCRed and HTMLed by Ed Thelen from a very poor copy provided by "anonymous" - Click for operational characteristics of the processors for the Burroughs B5000 - 5 MByte .pdf
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Training Deep Networks with Data Parallelism in Jax
Misha Laskin personal website. Includes a blog and projects focused on artifical intelligence.
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A Closer Look at Transit
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Cognitect and I worked on the transit-js implementation. The opinions found herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect the recommendations or views of Cognitect.