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A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012)
A guide to all the Magic Methods in Python
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Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings
It’s not often I am able to write a patch that not only reduces memory usage, but increases speed as well. Usually I find myself trading memory for speed, so it’s a real treat when I can improve both in one patch. Today I want to talk about the patch I submitted to Ruby in this ticket. It decreases “after boot” memory…
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Developer on Call
For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten years, I have been on organized on call rotations for the systems I have been developing. I think being on …
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Announcing TypeScript 2.7
Today we're proud to announce the release of TypeScript 2.7! If you're not familiar with TypeScript, it's a language that brings optional static types to
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Tail recursion in Python
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
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Erlang/OTP 21's new logger
With OTP-21 came a new logging library in Erlang called logger . It comes as an attempt to offer a built-in alternative to long successful projects such as lager , which have seen years of battle testing and tweaking for performance. I've seen few articles written about the new logger and what it can do, so I've…
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour
Update 28 Feb 2019: I added a new blog post with a slide deck containing the presentation I did for PyData Montreal. Introduction Short intro to Python extension objects in C/C++ Zero-copy PyTorch Tensor to Numpy and vice-versa Tensor Storage Shared Memory DLPack: a hope for the Deep Learning frameworks Babel…
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Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac
With macOS Mojave, Apple is adding support to bring apps written in UIKit to macOS without the requirement of having to rewrite the UI in AppKit. This is not yet officially supported — this post will explore what we can expect in 2019 and how you can use Marzipan today.
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Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies
The blog of Seva Zaikov
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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
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Released and Certified: Qt Safe Renderer
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Some Notes About How I Write Haskell
I want to say a few words on how I write Haskell as of 2017. Before I go on, I want to make very clear: this is neither a style recommen...
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My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote
I promised two things when I did the closing keynote at RustConf 2018:
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Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance
Practical advice on getting the most out of handling errors "the Go way" from the creator of imgproxy and Overmind.
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What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
Yet again, intern season is coming to a close, and so it’s time to look back at what the interns have achieved in their short time with us. I’m always impres...
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Using /proc to get a process' current stack trace
Check out how you can use the proc filesystem to retrieve the kernel stack trace of a given process
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C++ Coroutine Theory (2017)
In this post I will describe the differences between functions and coroutines and provide a bit of theory about the operations they support. The aim of this post is introduce some foundational concepts that will help frame the way you think about C++ Coroutines.
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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.
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Using k-d trees to efficiently calculate nearest neighbors in 3D vector space
What would the world look like if there were only 16 colors? I use k-d trees to perform nearest neighbor search to find out.
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Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas... Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language....
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Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion
Deep neural networks are composed of many individual neurons, which combine in complex and counterintuitive ways to solve a wide range of challenging tasks. This complexity grants neural networks their power but also earns them their reputation as confusing and opaque black boxes.
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If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
Monads have exerted a curious fascination on programmers who turn to Haskell. The incomprehension of the newbies is matched in intensity onl...