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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
Announcing Fly Machines
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
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Please restore our registers when you’re done with them
“Hey, you. Yes you, that function over there. When you’re cleaning up please remember to restore all of my registers. Yes, that one too – what do you think this is, Linux?”That’s the problem I was …
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Vim Reference Guide
Concise learning resource for beginner to intermediate level Vim users
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I did Advent of Code on a Playstation
How far can I get in Advent of Code if I do all the problems in Dreams?
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SQLite internals: How the most-used database works
Explore SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works by Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer. Deep dive into database internals, systems engineering, and advanced Python.
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Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention
Last week, Chandler Carruth announced Carbon, a potential C++ replacement they’ve been working on for the past two years. It has the usual cool features you expect from a modern language: useful generics, compile-time interfaces/traits/concepts, modules, etc. – but the thing I’m most excited about is a tiny detail…
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Scripting with Go
The Unix shell is pure wizardry. Why shouldn’t it be as easy to write systems programs in Go as it is in the shell? The script library is the secret spell-book that makes this possible.
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WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
I found this interesting print-ad for WordPerfect for UNIX, apparently the best UNIX product of 1992! (Very) Belated congratulations Corel!
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Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup
Find where WhatsApp chats live in an iPhone backup, decrypt an encrypted iOS backup with Python, and read your messages from ChatStorage.sqlite.
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The type system is a programmer's best friend
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Supporting a programming language at Meta is a very careful and deliberate decision. We’re sharing our internal programming language guidance that helps our engineers and developers choose the best…
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Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Emacs for Professionals
This is a series of brief articles aimed at teaching Emacs to computer professionals who are unfamiliar with it. I do not dwell on the basics of the user interface, which can be learned from the built-in tutorial. Instead, each article in this series will distill one very specific command line (CLI) tool or technique…
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GitHub Actions Pitfalls
During one of my assignments, I worked with GitHub Actions pretty much every day. I implemented workflows, created new actions, and helped people migrate their projects from jenkins to actions. As much as I like actions – and I like them a lot – there are some things that caught me off guard. I have collected some of…
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Ruby delights built into the language
No Gems Needed
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Paxos
Use two consensus building phases to reach safe consensus even when nodes disconnect
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Audio Sparklines
Audio Sparklines! 3-bit digital wonders! A lofi waveform representation of audio buffers in tests and lldb debuggers!
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Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
My experience trying to learn Zig via Advent of Code.
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C isn't a programming language anymore
Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them . Where we’re not aligned is why we’re mad about them.
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Clojure 1.11 is now available
Clojure 1.11 provides new syntax for keyword argument invocation, namespace aliasing without loading, a new clojure.math namespace, and many additional bug fixes and enhancements.
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Rewriting TypeScript in Rust?
Donny (kdy1 on GitHub) is rewriting TypeScript in Rust hoping to speed up tsc which is slow due to its TypeScript base.
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Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig
Jakub Konka's weblog about programming, game theory, maths, and more.