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Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
Colab will soon add AI coding features like code completions, natural language to code generation and even a code-assisting chatbot.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes
I have been working on a hobby project to reimagine the C core of Emacs in Rust. On this journey, I reached the point where I needed some way to represent the text of a buffer. The simplest approach is to just use a large string or array of lines. However these each suffer from poor performance as either the size or…
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Type system updates: moving from research into development
A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.
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It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7 (2019)
From time to time, someone shows that in JavaScript the .length of a string containing an emoji results in a number greater than 1 (typically 2) and then proceeds to the conclusion that haha JavaScript is so broken—and is rewarded with many likes. In this post, I will try to convince you that ridiculing JavaScript for…
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Moving from Rust to C++
Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because it’s written in a very persuasive style, and I mixed in some…
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Deleting System32\curl.exe
Let me tell you a story about how Windows users are deleting files from their installation and as a consequence end up in tears. Background The real and actual curl tool has been shipped as part of Windows 10 and Windows 11 for many years already. It is called curl.exe and is located in the … Continue reading deleting…
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Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU
SIMT The programming model of a GPU uses what has been coined "single instruction multiple thread." The idea is that the programmer writes t...
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A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2
Brev.Dev Instances Console
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How to start a React Project in 2023
React starter kits (Vite, Next, Astro, Remix, React Router) which help React developers to start a React project in 2025 ...
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GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload
Some of us in the GTK team have spent the last month or so exploring the world of linux kernel graphics apis, in particular, dmabufs. We are coming back from this adventure with some frustrations and some successes. What is a dmabuf? A dmabuf is a memory buffer in kernel space that is identified by...
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Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous
When Java 17 was released in 2021 as a “long term support” version, I wrote an article dissecting its features and came to the conclusion that it had a few nice features, but none that were compelling reasons to upgrade. Except one: tens of thousands of bug fixes.
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Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Firefox for Android will soon support extensions
During the release cycle of Firefox 120, we’ll begin to see the emergence of dozens of new, openly available extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’re taking a ...
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Subverting the software interview (2021)
Writing code for online games, particularly for mobile or web-based slot games like this one , involves a mix of advanced graphics rendering, real-time networking, security implementations, and intricate game logic. Developers need to balance between performance optimization, cross-platform compatibility, and the…
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Deno Cron
`Deno.cron` allows you to easily create scheduled jobs and is available on Deno Deploy. Here's how it works.
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SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
SQL:2023 has been wrapped. The final text has been submitted by the working group to ISO Central Secretariat, and it’s now up to the ISO gods when it will be published. Based on past experience, it could be between a few weeks and a few months.
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A beginner's guide to Git version control
Learn the basics of using Git, the most popular tool for tracking and managing code changes for your application development.
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The Art of LaTeX: Common mistakes and advice for typesetting proofs
When was the first time you had to use LaTeX? If you are like most people, it was probably suddenly forced upon you during your first math or CS class where you had to start writing proofs, with minimal guidance on how to get started. Unfortunately, this meant that while many people have good operational knowledge of…
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Julia 1.9
Highlights of the Julia 1.9 release.
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Now I can just print that video
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have to keep unlocking it to see the next step. I wanted to print the recipe out, and have it on the counter while I was…
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How does Linux start a process
Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.
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My First Impressions of Nix
Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten years ago, I discovered Salt, a tool that…
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Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC
I've spent most of the last decade exploring this area (mainly to design Vale 's memory safety) and I've discovered some surprising things .
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Structured logging with slog
The Go 1.21 standard library includes a new structured logging package, log/slog.
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Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`
An alternate to traditional <code>deleted_at</code> soft deletion that stays out of the way and minimizes bugs.
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The Linux Upskill Challenge
The Linux Upskill Challenge (https://github.com/livialima/linuxupskillchallenge) as done by Leo Robinovitch
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Making CRDTs More Efficient
State-based CRDTs grow monotonically, but that doesn't mean they can't be efficient. We'll learn how to compress the pixel editor state by 98%.