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Focus by Automation
I’ve invested leisure time to save time when I’m working hard, not to save keystrokes but to save mental energy for the project at hand.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
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A few new things in Emacs 29
Everybody with an Emacs blogs raves about Emacs 29 these days. Things like Eglot, tree-sitter, SQL support and the like. Well, this is all nice – more than nice, brilliant! – but let’s not forget a few minor advances which are coming with Emacs 29. Let me mention a few things that I especially like.
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A Base Filesystem Project for macOS
OK9 là nền tảng giải trí và cá cược trực tuyến với hệ thống sản phẩm đa dạng, bao gồm thể thao, live casino, slot game, bắn cá, xổ số và game bài.
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SQLAlchemy and You
The Django ORM feels so much easier than SQLAlchemy? Maybe this article can change your perception.
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I made a programming language with M&Ms
I built a tiny programming language where programs are candy grids, complete with a renderer, photo decoder, AST tree, and execution trace.
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JVM Anatomy Quark #10: String.intern (2019)
"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other.
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Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)
The author of Java 26's MemoryMXBean.getTotalGcCpuTime() analyzes the CPU-memory trade-off and why pause times fail to capture explicit GC cost.
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JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Garbage Collectors (GC) micro-benchmarks and their results, using a different set of patterns. For the current issue, I included all Garbage Collectors from AdoptOpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM version 13 (build 13+33) :
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Learning Elixir: My side-project
I believe that to really learn a programming language, I have to get involved in a project. Getting an overview of the Elixir language was…
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Objective-C Blocks vs. C++0x Lambdas: Fight
Blocks are perhaps the most significant new language feature introduced by Apple in years, and I've written a lot about them before. The new C++ standard, C++0x, introduces lambdas, a similar feature. Today, I want to discuss the two features and how they are alike and how they differ, a topic suggested by David…
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How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years
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Rust, a Raspberry Pi and Addressable LEDs
Tom Arrell's blog. Tom is a Software Engineer who writes about programming, embedded and electrical projects, and life.
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Bitcoin contracts
Bitcoin is designed to support a wide variety of transaction types. Although currently the majority of transactions are standard payments to address it is possible to build more complex protocols.
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Programming War Stories: Connectix
Aaron Giles is a Seattle-area programmer, musician, web developer, and graphic designer.
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Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time
On the March 10, 2025 episode of Do You Speak Tech?, I sat down with two names woven into the early fabric of modern computing: Larry Masinter and Frank
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JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis
After my last post discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript the unanimous consensus seemed to be that utilizing Trie would result in additional space savings and yield performance benefits.
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Logic Programming is Underrated
Mark Engelberg wrote a very interesting post titled Logic Programming is Overrated . I take issue with a quite a few points made in that post and I would like to address a couple of them here.
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Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
TLDR: Written version of the talk I gave at Develop Brighton 2026. Yes Godot can ship commercial VR, we paid roughly £80k in early adopter tax to do it. War stories from rebuilding Godot's core, the
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PANE: Programming with visible data
PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.
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Fast immutable vectors in C#
In the last post I talked about immutable stacks & queues. This post will be on immutable vectors. We want to support 3 operations:
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Git Tips
Aditya Bhargava's personal blog.
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