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Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,817 posts.
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the many additions to WebKit that are included in Safari 16.4.
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If PHP Were British
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
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Using io_uring for network I/O
Discover io_uring, an async I/O API for Linux that can potentially benefit networking, and learn how to integrate it into your applications and I/O libraries.
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Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
Note : This post stirred up some interesting discussions on HackerNews and Lobste.rs .
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The Several Million Dollar Bug
In case you landed here without any context and have no idea who I am or what this article is about this article should give you some background.
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Welcome Guido
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Quake 2 Source Code Review
I spent about a month in my spare time reading the source code of Quake II. It was a wonderful learning experience since one major improvement in idTech3 engine was to unify Quake 1, Quake World and QuakeGL into one beautiful code architecture. The way modularity was achieved even though the C programming language…
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I love coding in C
For the first time in almost a year, I brushed up on my C fundamentals and built a few toy programs. As I played around with pointers and printed out a memory location, I experienced a literal chill down my spine. I had almost forgotten how marvelous programming in this language was.
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Python is not a great language for data science
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
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Announcing a specification for PHP
The PHP language has been around for over 20 years and is clearly one of the most popular programming languages in the world. PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet for server-side web programming .
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem…
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Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
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I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked
How I stumbled upon the fact that YAML is a superset of JSON.
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From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
No newsletter next week Running the TLA+ workshop. No way I'm gonna have any brainpower after that. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel...
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Good and Bad Elixir
Words from Chris Keathley
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The future is specific
I’m going to make a bold claim: The future of tools isn’t in a better Eclipse or Visual Studio, it’s in easily created domain specific experiences.
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What's new in Emacs 31.1
Emacs 31.1 adds a slew of quality-of-life features. It retires its quirky unexec dumper; there are general improvements to tree-sitter, including a much-wanted auto-installer for grammars; and much more.
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I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
There’s a javascript emulator for the TI83+, TI84+, and TI84+CSE calculators called jsTIfied, which was written by Christopher Mitchell, founder of the calculator fan site cemetech.net. There’s not a whole lot of reasons to use it over something else if you’ve got a native option available, but if you don’t it’s…
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Python 3.3.0 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
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