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I’m spending months coding the old way
ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,532 posts.
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Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
This summer I’ve been interning at Pusher , and have been writing a lot of Go. It’s been a bit of a change coming from a Haskell background, so I decided to write up my thoughts now, at the end.
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To become a good C programmer (2011)
Every once in a while I receive an email from a fellow programmer asking me what language I used for one of my games and how I learned it. Here is an entry that list the best things to read about C. If you know of other gems, please email me or add a comment at the bottom of the page.
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Good Software Development Habits
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
When M1 Macs were launched, a new GPU with iOS-like architecture started driving the external monitors. This meant that the old method for controlling monitors using DDC wouldn't work anymore. Apps like Lunar and MonitorControl had to find other ways to change the brightness of the monitors.
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Minimalist C Libraries
In the past year I’ve written a number of minimalist C libraries, particularly header libraries. The distinction for “minimalist” is, of course, completely arbitrary and subjective. My definition in this context isn’t about the library’s functionality being stupidly trivial or even necessarily simple. I’m talking…
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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Hypermodern Python
A guide to modern Python tooling with a focus on simplicity and minimalism.
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That coworker who never stops refactoring
We’ve all seen them. They drive the rest of the team crazy. How can we use them to our advantage?
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Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO
Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
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A neat XOR trick
Looking over the solutions mega-thread , it seems like not many people discovered this trick; when I posted about it , people found it to be noteworthy.
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The Game Engine Black Book: Doom
The Game Engine Black Book: DOOM is now available for purchase. It is being released exactly 25 years after DOOM.zip was first published on the University of Wisconsin FTP server in December 1993. You can get it at the following locations: - Amazon ( USA , France , UK , and many more). - Google Books ( here with no…
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78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
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Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story
A Hubris Bug Story
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Minimal PDF
Most PDF files do not look readable in a text editor. Compression, encryption, and embedded images are largely to blame. After removing these three components, one can more easily see that PDF is a human-readable document description language.
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What is a control system anyway?
Hopefully some signal in the noise.
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Let's Build a Compiler
Compilers, interpreters, runtimes, and the like can sometimes feel vaguely magical. They take your code, perform complex transformations that you only partially understand, and spit out an executable binary. Clearly, the inner workings of such a beast must contain arcane secrets, not meant for the minds of mortals.
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Java Is Underhyped
The perspective of an ignorant computer science undergrad
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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
[Guillermo Rauch](https://x.com/rauchg) [tweeted](https://x.com/rauchg/status/807626710350839808) this a while back. Let's take a dive into what it means.
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Why I'm Not a React Native Developer
Many people are currently assessing React Native as a platform to develop their next mobile app on. This is no trivial matter. Switching your software development platform involves a high setup cost and will profoundly impact your daily programming workflow. It is also one of the costliest decisions to reverse after…
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Consider SQLite
If you were creating a web app from scratch today, what database would you use? Probably the most frequent answer I see to this is Postgres, although there are a wide range of common answers: MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, etc. Today I want you to consider: what if SQLite would do just fine?
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The Rust Platform
A programming language is much more than its compiler and standard library. It’s a community. Tools. Documentation. An ecosystem. All of these elements affect how a language feels, its productivity, and its applicability.
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Destroy All Ifs – A Perspective from Functional Programming
Replace conditionals with lambdas for simpler code that's more powerful
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A career-ending mistake
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
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Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
This particular blog post was sitting on my mind for a long time. I don’t want to start a flame war, but at the same time I also don’t wish for Linux community to build and grow upon ad-hoc solutions that we’ve accumulated over the last 30 years to the packaging and deployment problems. History of Linux automation…
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
Supply chains attacks are all the rage these days, whether to deliver RATs, cryptocurrencies miners, or credential stealers. In Rust, packages are called crates and are (most of the time) hosted on a central repository: https://crates.io for better discoverability. We are going to study 8 techniques to achieve Remote…