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Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1
Hackweek 22 took place last week. During this week all the SUSE employees are free to hack on whatever they want. This one of the perks of working at SUSE 😎.
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What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
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gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
Building highly scalable, loosely coupled systems has always been tough. With the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, burgeoning data volumes and increasing customer expectations, it's critical to be able to develop and run systems efficiently and reliably at internet scale.
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
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Fast UTF-8 validation
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
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Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server ? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable , pragmatic point of view.
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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of scope.
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Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1.
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Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
git purr, git meowge, and git puss! My doodling on basic git commands, and difference between merge and rebase with cats!
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GameCube Emulation and Pixel Processing Problems
The GameCube GPU is a complex, tight-knit piece of hardware with impressive features for its time. It is so powerful and so flexible, it was used unmodified within the Wii architecture. For a comparison, just imagine a SNES running with an NES's graphics system. This is completely unheard of, before...
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Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
I built a Factorio belt balancer solver. From tiny 2x2 grids to a massive 16x16 monster, every step revealed new solver tricks, numeric hiccups, and devious debugging puzzles.
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A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store
The PingCAP company, makers of the TiDB NewSQL database and the TiKV key-value store, have kindly made publicly available, as well as open-sourced, a set of training courses that they call the "PingCAP Talent Plan". These courses train programmers in writing distributed systems in the Go and Rust languages. They are…
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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed the P programming language for modeling and specifying protocols.
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Announcing Rust Language Server Alpha Release
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C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both to describe the effect of outright bugs like accessing memory in a freed object and also to capture the fact that existing implementations differed about handling certain aspects of the language, including use of…
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People suck at technical interviews (2014)
Most technical interviews test the wrong things: memorized syntax, whiteboard coding, brand-name employers. Instead, hire for learning ability, intellectual honesty, clear communication, and basic decency. "Team fit" is bias in disguise. Homogeneity means you're hiring wrong. Good hiring is hard and slow, but worth it.
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Why Python keeps growing, explained
A deep dive into why more people are using Python than ever, its key use cases, and why it’s still so popular 30-plus years after it was first released.
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The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design. The essence of this style can be captured by the phrase the right thing . To such a designer it is important to get all of the following characteristics right:
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Never write your own date parsing library
Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven…
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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
After 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as Chief Technology Officer.
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