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One of the great features of Phoenix is how easily it allows developers to include realtime functionality in applications. In this episode we'll use Channels to build a simple chat application in 8 minutes.
A detailed look at the interesting LSM file organisation seen in BigTable, Cassandra and most recently MongoDB.
Ten lessons for coding with agents, from implementing to learn to remembering that code is cheap but maintenance and security aren’t.
In this article we’ll go on a journey from 4-bit microcontrollers to room-sized mainframes and learn how porting C to each of them helped people separate the essence of the language from the environment of its birth. I’ve found technical manuals and videos for this article to help bring each computer to life.
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
These are some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and decompiled the String resources for the compiler.) The compiler is 324k in size so these are just an excerpt I hope. I'm not sure where I stand on the copyright issue. Tony…
Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
There's an old joke that computer science is a lie, because its not really about computers, and its not really a science. Funny joke. Everyone laughs, then someone says "Yeah but it sort of is about computers though, isn't it?". Feet shuffle awkwardly. Someone clears their throat and before you
New database library for Rust
An update on the Model Context Protocol roadmap and focus areas for upcoming specification releases.
When an enthusiastic Ada programmer and a SPARK expert pair up to prove the most "stupid" sorting algorithm, lessons are learned! Join us in this…
Matthias Felleisen jested "Why are you still using CL when Scrbl/Racket is so much better :-)" ? My response was as follows: Dear Matthias, you are right Racket is so much better in so many dimensions. I use Lisp because I just can't bear programming in a language without proper syntactic…
Moving on from Python Machine Learning might seem impossible. Let me break down why and how you can do it.
Update (April 19): Yilei Chen announced the discovery of a bug in the algorithm, which he does not know how to fix. This was independently discovered by Hongxun Wu and Thomas Vidick. At present, th…
Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem including D1, R2, and Workers AI without writing any JavaScript glue code.
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Haskell's features enable rapid development, easy maintainability, and excellent performance, making it a top choice as an industrial-strength programming language.
A pointer references a location in memory and dereferencing a pointer refers to the lookup of the value of the memory location the pointer references. The value of a pointer is a memory address. The C standard does not define the representation of a memory address. This is crucial since not every architecture makes…
This post is a list of many of the reasons to use Postgres, much this content as well as how to use these features will later be curated within PostgresGuide.com. If you need to get started check out Postgres.app for Mac, or get a Cloud instance at Heroku Postgres for free UPDATE: A part 2 has been posted on Why Use…
Or: How to Remain Sane when Approaching Gradle (with apologies to Hans Dockter).
Note: I copied this from http://misspiggy.gsfc.nasa.gov/tao.html and stripped out all of the IMHO extraneous formatting. ---Alex
