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Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.2 through to 1.18 -- in its compiler, runtime, and libraries.
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I made a simple geolocation service
Learn how to create simple Geolocation service without 3rd-party APIs
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Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles. While I was reluctant to do this, it turned out to be a good exercise to write “Golden Rules,” that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three…
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Linux Pipes Are Slow
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster through a pipe. Francesco already did a…
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Some obscure C features
Date: 2018-01-25 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00010-obscure-c-features.md
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EmacsConf 2024 Notes
The videos have been uploaded , thank-you notes have been sent, and the kiddo has decided to play a little Minecraft on her own, so now I get to write some quick notes on EmacsConf 2024 .
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Id Software Programming Principles
id Software co-founder John Romero tells the early story of the game company inthis GDC 2016 talk and lists the programming principles that guided them towar...
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SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES
Video links for this article: Short trailer Walkthrough and technical details Update 31th May 2021: The source code for SuperRT has now been released. I’m pleased to finally have some results to show for a project I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last year or so. The idea originated when I was trying to…
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Why I like Java
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
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Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
Create multiline git commits by using -m multiple times when using git commit
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Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
Guillaume Técher — Personal website
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Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
An experiment in creating a 3D environment using HTML elements and CSS transforms featuring lights, shadows and collision detection.
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Main is usually a function – when is it not?
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
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Elm is Wrong
A few weeks ago, on a whim my friend and I decided to hackathon our way through an app to help us learn how to play guitar . In a stroke of inspiration, we decided to learn something new, and do the project in the Elm programming language , about which I had heard many good things.
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Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
Script for highlighting large videos in iCloud and a storage discrepancy
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Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project.
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Fastest branchless binary search
Fastest general and simple binary search C++ implementation
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Whence '\n'?
If you do just foo , the following justfile will write a single byte 0x0A to a file named bar:
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State machines are wonderful tools
I love when my current problem can be solved with a state machine. They’re fun to design and implement, and I have high confidence about correctness. They tend to: