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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,819 posts.
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A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009)
Thoughts on software engineering from Rob Bell
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Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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What even is an OS now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
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C++ is an absolute blast
Where I try to explain why I feel like C\+\+ is so much fun, and to correct some misinformation.
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Ryzen is for Programmers
Programing in Clojure and ClojureScript
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How Go mitigates supply chain attacks
Go tooling and design help mitigate supply chain attacks at various stages.
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
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Asynchrony is not concurrency
Yes I know about that one talk from Rob Pike.
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Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it
This week we released our authorisation flow making it possible for you to go from building apps that talk to your bank account, to building apps that can talk to any bank account. This is huge. Check out this SMS bot (how on trend) I hacked up yesterday morning. (and don’t forget to join the beta wait list ).
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Classes vs. Data Structures
Or rather, an object is a set of functions that operate on implied data elements.
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State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
This is a description of the Common Lisp ecosystem, as of January, 2021, from the perspective of a user and contributor.The purpose of this article is both to give an overview of the ecosystem, and to help drive consolidation in each domain.Each application domain has recommendations for consolidating that part of the…
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Announcing Amber.js
A little over a year ago, I got my first serious glimpse at SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple used to build MobileMe (now iCloud). At the time, I had worked extensively with jQuery and Rails on client-side projects, and I had never found the arguments for the "solutions for
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Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
For my day job , I need to build and run a Docker Compose project. However, because Docker doesn’t play well with nftables and I prefer a rootless + daemonless approach, I’m using Podman .
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Ember.js 1.0 Released
Today, we're excited to announce the final release of Ember.js 1.0. The first commit to the repository that would become Ember.js happened on April 30th, 2011, almost two and...
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Microgpt explained interactively
Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention heatmaps, and see a tiny model learn to generate plausible names.
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Butler Virtual Operating System
This post introduces [[butler]], a virtual operating system that runs multi-players applications on the web. In two parts, I present:
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Why Not Rust?
I've recently read an article criticizing Rust, and, while it made a bunch of good points, I didn't enjoy it --- it was an easy to argue with piece. In general, I feel that I can't recommend an article criticizing Rust. This is a shame --- confronting drawbacks is important, and debunking low effort/miss informed…