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Reverse engineering Claude Code
I’ve been curious about what happens inside Claude Code so I’ve spent a couple hours digging through prompts that it sends back to Anthropic.
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The Lazy Man's URL Parsing
Learn how to pull the pieces of a URL apart the lazy way so you can find out all the important information you wish to know about your URLs.
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Clojure from the Ground Up, Part 2: Basic Types
We’ve learned the basics of Clojure’s syntax and evaluation model . Now we’ll take a tour of the basic nouns in the language.
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C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]
I've been writing an IMAP client for and on my Mac 512Ke over the past many weeks. Taking inspiration from Andreas Kling's excellent YouTube videos documenting his development of the Serenity operating system, I thought I'd start screencasting some of my work.
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Self-contained Linux applications with lone Lisp
Creating standalone Linux applications with lone.
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From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)
The site of Sid
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Growing fibers
wingolog: article: growing fibers
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Implementing Value Speculation in OCaml
Lucas Pluvinage's website
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Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file
This isn't a late April Fools joke. (My April Fools joke that I got hired by Apple as a Swift Evangelist backfired with a profusion of congratulations.) This blog post is a kind of follow-up to some previous blog posts. Last month I wondered what's the best way to distribute Mac apps without notarization , and I…
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Unit Testing eBPF Programs
They provide a safety net when making changes, and give you that nice, warm feeling when you see them all pass after a change.
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Butchering HQX pixel art scaling filters
The HQX filters , namely hq2x, hq3x and hq4x, are well-known pixel art scalers. They are mainly used by old console (such as NES) emulators to provide a smooth rendering of the games. It was developed around 2003 by Maxim Stepin.
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A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery
It was a calm day on the puppy-linux thinkpad. The CPU was cool, the RAM was operating at double data rate, and a gentle breeze flowed through the chassis as the fan whirred away. A girl wanted to log onto Discord to chat with her friends, but much to her dismay, Discord needed a package update! No matter, such things…
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Interaction Nets, Combinators, and Calculus – HVM
Experiments, technology, and thoughts on life.
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Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – the importance of idempotence
Checking my assumptions about syncable data structures
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The Adventures of OS: Starting a Process
I have taught operating systems at my university, so I will link my notes from that course here regarding processes.
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New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors
Go 1.20, which is expected to be released in February 2023, comes with a small change that can possibly improve error handling in applications which heavily use …
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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious
The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner.
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Safety: A comparaison between Rust, C++ and Go
Memory safety is a hot topic, but what do we mean by it?
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