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Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.
Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
Join Illya Gerasymchuk on his new blog as he explores blockchain, DeFi, Zero-Knowledge cryptography, AI, and finance.
JSON is everywhere you look these days. The `jq` tool makes it easy to slice, dice, and transform JSON from the command line. It can be hard to map the official manual to real-world applications, so let's look at some practical examples of `jq` and its cousins that handle YAML & HTML!
My private corner for sharing thoughts about programming, computers and everything.
The famous fast inverse square root is some mysterious code not written by programming legend John Carmack to calculate a fast approximation of $1/\sqrt{x}$:
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
PhD student in Photophysics
We recently improved DuckDB's JSON extension so JSON files can be directly queried as if they were tables.
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
My friend and fellow Chicagoan Evan Miller wrote an excellent blog post over the weekend: Why I Develop For The Mac . It's full of great reasons why his software (which is also excellent, by the way) was written for the desktop, despite the fact that he's a web developer, even the creator of an Erlang web framework .
This started out on Twitter and I expected having to write up maybe 50 or so, but then it made the rounds. I don’t think I have 1200+ papers that I’d recommend reading, and even if I di…
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
Last year I created Pomodone , a small time tracking application based on the Pomodoro technique of working in 25 minute intervals. It's a pretty basic app; it has a 25 minute timer (that runs in a Web Worker) and saves a history of your "poms" to a small Firebase database. I initially built it using React (well…
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone whose job is in sales. A lot of the day is probably spent on…
We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript - and it got 3x Faster
Understand the mechanics of dynamic dispatch implementation in CPython
Algebraic effects 1 (a.k.a. effect handlers) are a very useful up-and-coming feature that I personally think will see a huge surge in popularity in the programming languages of tomorrow. They’re one of the core features of Ante, as well as being the focus of many research languages including Koka , Effekt , Eff , and…
A guide to the Elixir programming language for programmers who know Python.
The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
I am about to turn forty-six. This means I have been programming for forty years, half of them professionally. During most of that time, I used a "standard" setup with 104 keyboard, a flat mouse, and a sitting desk.
Touring the ORM and Postgres landscape in Go, and why sqlc is today’s top pick.
Deploying web applications is hard. No shiny continuous deployment talk and no DevOps coolness can change that. Or to use DevOps Borat’s words: “Is all fun and game until you are need of put it in production.“ There are some mistakes I see people doing again and again so I’d like to address them here.
