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Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET
Pipelines - a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET, part 1 (part 2 here) About two years ago I blogged about an upcoming experimental IO ...
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Java 20 Is Out!
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 20 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 395 in the Java Community Process.
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Where have all the hackers gone?
A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
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Coming Home to Vim
I'm a programmer. I work with text files for 6-12 hours every weekday so I care about the text editor I use. If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things.
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Rust for tokenising and parsing
Macros, iterators, patterns, error handling and match make Rust almost perfect
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts.
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I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
Did you hear the news? Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git . While the decision is far from being mine, and I was barely involved in the small incremental changes that ultimately led to this decision, I feel I have to take at least some responsibility. And if you are one of those who would rather use…
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How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
Teams across Anthropic use Claude Code for everything from debugging production issues and navigating unfamiliar codebases to building custom automation tools. Here's how.
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React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
The mobile team at Udacity recently removed the last features in our apps using React Native. Here's what worked and what didn't.
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The Elegance of the ASCII Table
ASCII, a standard whose legacy defines to this day how most of the letters and numbers in your computer get encoded into ones and zeroes, is elegant and beautiful. Via lessons in computer history, punched tape, and typewriters, I'd love to share some of its logic with you.
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Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
Andrew Vos's personal site
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Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
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LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
Building agents with LLM (large language model) as its core controller is a cool concept. Several proof-of-concepts demos, such as AutoGPT, GPT-Engineer and BabyAGI, serve as inspiring examples. The potentiality of LLM extends beyond generating well-written copies, stories, essays and programs; it can be framed as a…
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GCC 6.1 Released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017
One year ago I've published a post about reasons why our team chose Vue.js over React for our qwintry.com project rewrite. I've made some predictions back then: I expect Vue to become a primary JS framework in 16-24 months if Evan You makes right steps, at least around
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The curl-wget Venn diagram
In my view, wget is not a curl competitor. It is a companion tool that has a feature overlap with curl. Use the tool that does the job. Getting the job done is the key. If that means using wget instead of curl, then that is good and I don't mind. Why would I? To … Continue reading The curl-wget Venn diagram →
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The senior engineer death spiral
on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate
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Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
Lotus is a complete web framework for Ruby with a strong emphasis on object oriented design and testability. If you use it, you employ less DSLs and more objects, zero monkey-patching, separation of concerns between MVC layers. Each library is designed to be small, fast and testable.
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Code like a surgeon
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
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Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus
How do you condense a 30 minute talk in 5 minutes? Should you even try? These are the questions I struggled with when someone nudged me to register for the lightning talks. My talk was 30 minute long because I was to jump in if a last-minute incident would prevent someone to get on stage. Call me the backup speaker…
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Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures
This is an introduction to data structure flattening, a special case of arena allocation that is a good fit for programming language implementations. We build a simple interpreter twice, the normal way and the flat way, and show that some fairly mechanical code changes can give you a 2.4× speedup.
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PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching
This PEP proposes to add a pattern matching statement to Python, inspired by similar syntax found in Scala, Erlang, and other languages.
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Rust pointers for C programmers
Josef “Jeff” Sipek's Blahg
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Parsing English with 500 lines of Python (2013)
A syntactic parser describes a sentence’s grammatical structure, to help another application reason about it. Natural languages introduce many unexpected ambiguities, which our world-knowledg…