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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,823 posts.
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2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
DegenCity Casino for New Zealand players: 30 free spins with no deposit, an NZ$6,000 welcome package, a four-tier VIP program, Apple Pay, cards and crypto, payouts within 24 hours.
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A Simple ELF
The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.
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Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
Beginning in version 11.8.0, we will be improving the security of the Heroku CLI by storing authentication credentials in your system keychain by default. The Heroku credential manager makes use of OS-native secure storage tools with interfaces designed for sensitive data while maint
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Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases
Some say sharding is the best way to scale a database. Sharding enables you to linearly scale cpu, memory, and disk by separating your database into smaller parts. Yet, sharding is controversial. This post explores the principles of sharding relational databases for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C applications.
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Interactive Go programming with Jupyter
Introduction of a new feature-rich golang Jupyter kernel
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Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Jamf Threat Labs uncovers North Korean hackers exploiting VS Code to deploy backdoor malware via malicious Git repositories in the Contagious Interview campaign
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A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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The first year of free-threaded Python
A recap of the first year of work on enabling support for the free-threaded build of CPython in community packages.
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Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting i...
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
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Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
In this blog, we share how we improved the daily edit-build-run developer experience using DevPods, our remote development environment. We will start with some of the initial challenges, the pain points we addressed with Devpod, our architecture, and some of our recent successes in terms of adoption and cost…
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Left-Pad (2024)
8 years have passed since the the left-pad incident happened. It's been good for me to avoid this subject for focusing on actual work. Also, silence is gold. On the other hand, left-pad is seen as a notable event mentioned in books, so I'll share more info and thoughts about what exactly happened.
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Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
In a post a few months back I said it’s a popular myth that const is helpful for enabling compiler optimisations in C and C++ . I figured I should explain that one, especially because I used to believe it was obviously true, myself. I’ll start off with some theory and artificial examples, then I’ll do some experiments…
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)
Homer: There's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
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Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
How to format blog content so it’ll last.
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Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently
Answer to the famous question ‘Do good programmers use Google?’
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Python is Actually Portable
Gautham's Blog
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The Rust calling convention we deserve
I will often say that the so-called “C ABI” is a very bad one, and a relatively unimaginative one when it comes to passing complicated types effectively. A lot of people ask me “ok, what would you use instead”, and I just point them to the Go register ABI , but it seems most people have trouble filling in the gaps of…
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What if we had Local-First Software?
The path to an offline SaaS model
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What's New in Neovim 0.10
Neovim 0.10 was the longest release cycle since the heady days of the 0.5 release. There are a ton of new features in this release (as well as some breaking changes), so be sure to check the full release notes. You can view the release notes directly in Nvim with :h news. The news file includes information on new…
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Even if you can't write assembly, you can read disassembly
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
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Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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