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Python to OCaml: Retrospective
In 2013, I spent 6 months converting 0install's 29,215 lines of Python to OCaml (learning OCaml along the way). In this post, I'll describe the …
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 653 posts.
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I Don't Know Swift
I know a thing or two about Objective-C. It’s not bragging. If you’re reading my blog, there’s a decent chance that I know more about Objective-C …
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Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful
Script-injected scripts block on CSS and delay script execution. Their era has passed, and we now have a much better, cleaner, and faster solution: add an async attribute to your script tags.
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Daala progress update
Daala is a next-next-generation video codec being developed at Mozilla Research and Xiph.Org . The aim is not only to create a better video codec, but to create one that is a royalty-free open standard that can serve as the backbone technology for video on the internet.
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A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go
After reading countless articles about the wonders of Go, I wanted to learn more. But, learning a new language— I mean really learning it, not just getting familiar with the general capabilities and syntax—is hard. I'm sure there are tons of books that would purport to teach me all about it, but there is no substitute…
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Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)
In 2001, Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote a letter to the Budget Council of The University of Texas. A PDF is available here , I’ve typed it up so that everyone can read it. Sadly, the curriculum was changed to Java . Relatedly, the algorithmic language Scheme was replaced by Python in MIT’s The Structure and Interpretation…
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Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
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Don't link to line numbers in GitHub
Today I saw a co-worker take a link from a specific line number in our team’s github repository and place it in the comments section of a user story. This is very helpful for those who need to see a quick reference to the code that could be causing a defect, but it’s wrong . Here’s what you need to do instead.
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Python 3 is killing Python
The Python community should fork Python 2.
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Meanwhile, at code.org
In Mindstorms I made the claim that children can learn to program and that learning to program can affect the way they learn everything else. I had in mind something like the process of re-empowerment of probability: the ability to program would allow a student to learn and use powerful forms of proba- bilistic ideas…
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AngularJS: The Bad Parts
Hey! If you do front end development, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a JavaScript error logging service that doesn’t suck. Below is a graph over the amount of searches for AngularJ…
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Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?
We have excellent tools to create and edit text (vim, emacs, sublime, etc.). We have pretty good tools to create and edit tabular data (excel, other spreadsheet software). We even have pretty good …
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Pipes and Filters
Pipelines are an extremely useful (and surprisingly underused) architectural pattern in modern software engineering. The concept of using pipes and filters) to control the flow of data through...
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A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month
Recently, after being awake for longer than I should have, I started thinking about methods of remembering the number of days in each month of the year. There is a rhyme for it, and a way to count on your knuckles, but these didn’t satisfy me. I wondered if there was a mathematical formula for the problem, and upon…
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Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments
Best practices for writing Go code, from the halcyon days of its youth.
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Emacs and Vim
Personal Website and Blog of Martin Klepsch
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Mono for Unreal Engine
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
When I teach courses on Python for scientific computing, I make this point very early in the course, and tell the students why: it boils down to Python being a dynamically typed, interpreted language, where values are stored not in dense buffers but in scattered objects. And then I talk about how to get around this by…
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Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C
What implications exist around linking friendly-c code with machiavellian-c? I.e. put the performance critical kernels in there own module and work realy hard to make it correct.
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React: Another Level of Indirection
React provides a better abstraction over the DOM than MVC frameworks ever can. React is the last piece of the puzzle for ClojureScript web frontend development.
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Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)
In September, 2004, I posted a query to the Types list asking people to name the five most important papers ever written in the area of programming languages. This page collects the responses I received. (A few are missing because I am still tracking down bibliographic information.)