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The cloudy layers of modern-day programming
Is what we do development anymore?
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Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
When OpenAI announced GPT-3 & its public beta I was fascinated but didn’t have an API key. I played with everything free that was built with GPT-3. Naturally, when I heard about GitHub Copilot I signed up for the waitlist and a few months later, I got access!
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A whole website in a single JavaScript file
Explanation and making of a website in a single JavaScript file
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Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)
The dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983, was an also-ran.
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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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Intermediate Vim
A few tips to level up your vim editing skills from beginner to intermediate.
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TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
TL;DR: This is a proposal to create a language that sits somewhere between Typescript and Rust, and which you can incrementally adopt if you already use Typescript.
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On the nature of computing science (1984)
Now this summer school draws to a close, it seems appropriate to try to put its topic into some perspective
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LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly
For a few years now I have been working on the Haskell Language Server (HLS), and the lsp library for the LSP protocol and writing LSP servers. Unsurprisingly, I have developed some opinions about the design of the LSP! Recently I gave a talk about HLS and LSP at the Haskell Ecosystem Workshop at Zurihac 2024. One…
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
Ever since Golden Gate Claude I’ve been fascinated with “steering”: the idea that you can guide LLM outputs by directly manipulating the activations of the…
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PyPy 2.0 Released
We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.0. This is a stable release that brings a swath of bugfixes, small performance improvements and compatibil...
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Killing a process and all of its descendants
Killing processes in a Unix-like system can be trickier than expected. Last week I was debugging an odd issue related to job stopping on Semaphore. More specifically, an issue related to the killing of a running process in a job.
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Arvind has died
Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and leading scholar in computer architecture and programming languages, has died at 77. He transformed research in computer architectures and parallel computing, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
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Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?
Can Gemini 2.5 replace CNN for object detection?
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Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court
In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank today, striking down an abstract software patent. Essentially, the Court ruled that adding “on a computer” to an abstract idea does not make it patentable. Many thousands of software patents—particularly the...
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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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Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM
News post: Gleam v0.14 released!
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APIs, robustness, and idempotency
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Relay: Declarative data for React applications
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SwiftUI After 7 Years
Back in 2019, SwiftUI was announced as the future of Apple development. Seven years later, it still feels like a beta version struggling with stability, performance, and many other aspects. What’s actually wrong with SwiftUI?
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I Love Go; I Hate Go
I liked Go right away. It was close enough to C and Java to be instantly familiar, the examples and tutorials were straightforward, and I was quickly writing…
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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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“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
I had a friend tell me recently that all programming languages seem very similar to each other. They all have variables, and arrays, a few loop constructs, functions, and some arithmetic constructs. Sure, some languages have fancier features like first-class functions or coroutines, but he doesn't consider himself an…