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This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk on file safety with a mobile-friendly non-bloated format .
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?
A good example of a simple looking, but hard to use correctly, API is one which takes two or more parameters of the same type. Let’s compare two function signatures:
Things I've learned while porting 50 thousand lines of code from Java to Go
So I've been curious about what kinds of displays you can connect to the Pi-series single board computers for a while. I happened to accidentally order a few. Among others an eInk display. I ordered the PaPiRus ePaper. It ended up being dead on arrival and then out of stock so I received an Inky to replace it. Fair…
Update: Due to lack of interest/use, in June 2021 this site was shut down and user data (emails, names, search alerts) deleted from all systems and backups. For Extramaze LLC I'm using Racket in a commercial project -- a search engine with email alerts fo...
Over the years one of the most complex issues we have had to deal with at Discourse was flaky tests, in this post I would like to talk a bit about the various patterns we have come across and ways we tackle this issue.
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
Eller's algorithm creates 'perfect' mazes, having only a single path between any two cells, one row at a time. The algorithm itself is incredibly fast, and far more memory efficient than other popular algorithms (such as Prim's and Kruskal's) requiring storage proportional to only a single row. This makes it possible…
I have developed some interest in the Rust programming language. Rust is a systems programming language which means it gets out of the way of developers interested in reaching low-level internals of a system. What sets it aside from other systems languages though is: Borrow checking to guarantee memory safety…
Learn about ownership of legacy software code.
Image differentiation in three languages
Edit (2019-04-09): A quick qualifier for future readers. This post talks about correctness in the sense of correct code and not formal proofs or formal specifications. I refer to correctness in the sense of avoidable runtime errors.
The core playlist in VLC was started a long time ago . Since then, it has grown to handle too many different things, to the point it became a kind of god object .
I've just finished the final rewrite of my website. I'm not lying: this is the last time I'm ever going to do it. This website has gone through countless rewrites – from WordPress to Jekyll to multiple static site generators of my own – but this is the final one. I know so, because I've found the ultimate method for…
There are many good reasons to use a microservices architecture. In this post, we examine 6 factors to help you decide when to use—and when not to use—microservices.
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to draw charts with Chart.js and how to customize them to suit our needs.
I spent some more time with Python and started to realize that I needed something more. Here's a brief list of the reasons why I switched to Clojure.
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.}
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application
Visualization has always been challenging task but with the advent of dataframe plot() function it is quite easy to create decent looking plots with your dataframe, The **plot** method on Series and DataFrame is just a simple wrapper around Matplotlib plt.plot() and you really don’t have to write those long matplotlib…
