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Stack Overflow Fatigue
This post has moved to Robert Elwell's Blog -- Stack Overflow Fatigue?
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MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
Last weekend I tweeted two links to two tweets by a poor guy who apparently got his MongoDB database into an unrecoverable state during shutdown whilst upgrading to a newer version. That tweet quickly made the rounds, and the next morning I saw myself staring at replies stating that it was all his fault, because he…
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Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript
Technical blog of Ryan Jerue
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Defending your app from copies and clones
App developers sometimes ask me what they should do when their features, designs, or entire apps are copied by competitors.
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
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Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal
EDIT 2022-07-22: With the shutdown (or imminent shutdown) of the 2G/EDGE/3G network in the US I'm now switching to a BlackBerry Q10, which supports LTE and is able to run ConnectBot.
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Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, an open-source library for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS-like styling.
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The Switch from Heroku to Hardware
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Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig
Version 0.9 of the Zig programming language is planned to release in about a week. One of the major changes coming in this release is a restructuring of how allocators work, which has been termed Allocgate . This is a breaking change to the Allocator API provided by the standard library, so pretty much any code that…
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X86 Register Encoding
If you've ever look at the disassembly output for C or C++ code, you'll probably notice that there are a lot of push/pop instructions. And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the compiler prefers to use certain registers over others. In particular, compilers will prefer pushing "old" registers like…
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What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs
Offset pagination gets a bad rap because it’s backend inefficient, but it’s actually a nice feature from a consumer’s perspective. How to bring those advantages to cursor-based APIs.
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Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
For those who’ve been long-time readers of SoylentNews, it’s not exactly a secret that I have a personal interest in retro computing and documenting the history and evolution of the Personal Computer. About three years ago, I ran a series of articles about restoring Xenix 2.2.3c, and I’m far overdue on writing a new…
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Transferring GitHub stars
Aftermath of how I moved stars to a great project from an simple project with undeserved stars
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File Locks on Linux
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Webhook Failure Scenarios
<p>A webhooks allow two applications to communicate events. It is relatively simple to get started using webhooks using HTTP and JSON. However, there a number of failure scenarios that developers should be aware of in order to make their webhook implementation robust.</p>
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The History of DR DOS
The last of Digital Research
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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision
You may feel like you've seen this before. If you have, skip to the end where I talk about a formula, and discuss the relevance to parameters in computer hashing algorithms. In particular, I'm going to talk about how large hash spaces should be to avoid collisions with a given level of probability. If there are just…
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Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code
If you’re thinking of migrating to another infrastructure as code tool (and why would you, everything is great in the IaC world now, right?!) you might find yourself asking yourself
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Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack
This guide will walk you through setting up Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack to easily interoperate between low-level Rust code and…
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; Echo “Shell Injection”
This is an introductory article about shell injection, a security vulnerability allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's machine. This is a well-studied problem, and there are simple and efficient solutions to it. It's relatively easy to design library API in such a way as to shield the application…
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The convergence of compilers, build systems and package managers
Abstract. The traditional abstraction barriers between compiler, build system and package manager are increasingly ill-suited for IDEs, parallel build systems, and modern source code organization. Recent compilers like go and rustc are equipped with a fully-fledged build systems; semantic build systems like Bazel and…
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CCL: Categorical Configuration Language
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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Software has its own Gresham's Law
I recently found myself reading a few of Gregor Hohpe's blog posts and came across Design Patterns: More Than Meets The Eye . In it, Hohpe repeats a message that needs to be repeated every so often even now, twenty years after the publication of the GoF book: software patterns are fundamentally about human…