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Why are we templating YAML?
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
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Avoid Indirection in Code
I often see code where authors abstract away details by placing them in some external function. Here is a toy example:
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The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple
You find a bug in macOS or iOS. Something in the software isn’t working the way it should work. You decide to let Apple know, and head over to http://bugreport.apple.com and login with your Apple ID.... <a class="read-more"…
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
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When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:
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Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig
This is where I write about the stuff that I've been working on.
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Repl from Repo
Find the right repository, bring it into Replit, and get to work. What changed in GitHub imports, authentication, and the Git pane.
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
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I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)
I wrote a self-hosting C compiler which I named 8cc in 40 days. This is a log when I was writing it from scratch by myself in 2012. The code and its history are available at GitHub .
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Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)
For some time Elfeed was experiencing a strange, spurious failure. Every so often users were seeing an error (spoiler warning) when updating feeds: “error in process sentinel: Search failed.” If you use Elfeed, you might have even seen this yourself. From the surface it appeared that curl, tasked with the…
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A fork() in the road
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
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How we built the Waifu Vending Machine
On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.
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Why I don't use web components
For my first post on dev.to I thought I'd write about a nice, safe topic that's free of controversy:...
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PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
Yes, I know, it’s a long text, and it was my conscious decision to write it in this way. But fear not! Imagine that you read a book, take a look at the introduction and first few interesting sections, think about it and then find time to read further. I hope I’ve left enough references, so if you don’t get some ideas…
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Awk by Example
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched
The Go module mirror and checksum database provide faster, verified downloads of your Go dependencies.
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Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
Aroma is a code-to-code search and recommendation tool that uses ML to make the process of gaining insights from big codebases much easier.
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Arima Model – Guide to Time Series Forecasting in Python
Using ARIMA model, you can forecast a time series using the series past values. In this post, we build an optimal ARIMA model from scratch and extend it to Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) and SARIMAX models. You will also see how to build autoarima models in python
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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The Order of the JSON
When I read Fitz’ tweet about ordered JSON my body shuddered, as my brain was flooded with a past experience that taught me a frightening lesson on technology being used by non-technical comp…
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.