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Explore the challenges and solutions when applying types and functional programming concepts in JavaScript. This insightful blog post delves into the complexities of managing data shape, immutability, and trust in dynamic code, offering practical advice and alternative approaches to enhance code reliability and…
I recently started FPGA programming and figured it would be fun to use an FPGA to implement the FizzBuzz algorithm. An FPGA ( Field-Progra...
Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon, which requires root access on your machine to run. This can make it difficult to build container images in environments that can’t easily or securely expose their Docker daemons, such as Kubernetes clusters (for…
Complexity is the most important challenge in software development. So it is important to always strive to eliminate complexity. But sometimes we worship complexity - and that can make complexity problems unsolvable.
For me, this month marks the end of an era in my life: as of February 2018, I am no longer employed writing Haskell. It’s been a fascinating two years, and while I am excitedly looking forward to what I’ll be doing next, it’s likely I will continue to write Haskell in my spare time. I’ll probably even write it again…
Electron's latest releases, versions and release notes.
Explanation of a little known C feature – and yet another use of the “static” keyword!
Imagine something really cool, like a fridge connected to a powerwall, powered entirely by solar panels. What could be cooler than that?
What do Photoshop, Matlab, Panic Transmit, and Eclipse have in common? They are among the 299 apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes.
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We’ve added a new primitive type called Span<T> that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on…
I have been job hunting in the last 2 months or so. Thankfully, I am settled with a company I admire now, and it seemed like I had more luck than the average job applicant. But among the handful of companies that I had the pleasure to interview with, I had my fair share of interesting moments.
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
A little over a year ago, I joined Cloud Foundry to work on Loggregator , Cloud Foundry's application logging component. Its core concern is best-effort log delivery without pushing back on upstream writers. Loggregator is written entirely in Go.
Visualization of different methods of generating random points inside a sphere
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
Random thoughts
Regex Lookahead and Lookbehind Tutorial. Explains the fine details of Lookahead and Lookbehind, including zero-width matches, overlapping matches and atomicity.
While working on my current project, the constant creep of increasing compilation times was becoming more and more noticeable. Even after throwing my usual tools at the problem, the total time was still over 7 seconds.
It seems like this time of year anyone with a blog is doing some sort of ‘advent calendar’, i.e. 24 posts leading up to Christmas. For instance there’s a F# one which inspired a C# one (C# copying from F#, that never happens 😉)
We believe the true dream of cloud computing is that your code lives in the network itself. Your code doesn't run in "us-west-4", it runs everywhere.
In my last post I promised to give more details about some rabbit holes that I went down during the investigation, including page tables, locks, WMI, and a vmmap bug. Those details are here, along …
I have a gripe with the phrase
When I built Finda , I wanted it to be fast — specifically, to respond to all user input within 16 milliseconds.
