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At the end of January of this year, I switched to a new job, almost exclusively because I was enticed by the idea of being able to write Haskell. The concept of using such an interesting programming language every day instead of what I’d been doing before (mostly Rails and JavaScript) was very exciting, and I’m…
Python 3 Support with Scrapy 1 - Upgrade your Scrapy projects to Python 3. Leverage the latest features and improvements.
Good projects are automated projects. But documenting all those Make targets in a README file doesn't make much sense, when you can make the Makefile auto-documented.
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This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.
Use attrs. Use it. Use it for everything.
Hi, I’m Jim ‘Anodoin’ Merrill, and I work on test automation efforts for League of Legends , focused specifically on the in-game experience. I currently serve as the tech captain to the Build Verification System Development (BVS-Dev) team.…
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source, community-supported framework. The new UWP support extends the reach of these native apps to a new market of 270 million…
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I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.
Undebt: How We Refactored 3 Million Lines of Code Evan H., Software Engineering Intern Aug 23, 2016 Peter Seibel wrote that to maximize engineering effectiveness, “Let a thousand flowers bloom....
In this article, I will attempt to convince you that Expect is an extremely underappreciated tool for automating terminal applications in Unix.
This blog post will maintain the industry best practices for securely generating random data in Ruby, Node.js, Java, etc.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
If this were a diary it would have a unicorn on the cover, because unicorns are awesome.
Learn React from the ground up, without worrying about JSX, Flux, ES6, Webpack, etc.
For the past two months I've been spending half my time on Tauthon . Tauthon is a backwards-compatible Python interpreter that runs Python 2 code and C-extensions exactly as-is, while also allowing Python 2 programmers to use the most exciting new language features from Python 3. These new backported language features…
Sobit Akhmedov is a staff software engineer with 14 years experience building e-commerce, financial and cloud storage solutions for startup and Big Five companies.
QBE is a compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code. QBE fosters language innovation by offering a compact user-friendly and performant backend. The size limit constrains QBE to focus on the essential and prevents embarking on a never-ending path…
A case study of rewriting software system from scratch and why it failed.
