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I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!
The library for web and native user interfaces
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…
Rémy Rakic is helping us enable the adoption of memory safe software through work to improve Rust compile times. We asked him to provide his perspective on the work in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Rémy! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG's Prossimo project Introduction Over the past few months…
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Don’t confuse embeddings with memory. To build effective RAG, start with a search engine, not just a vector database.
Create beautiful diagrams just by typing math notation in plain text.
I ♥ to /bin/bash and last week I came around the one bash book to rule them all.
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Knock knock? Who’s there? It’s me, Oskar, the end is near, did you know that? Ah, you know it but don’t know how to proceed? Let’s talk about the end of the CRUD world…
A helpful list of resources for people who are just getting started out with Rails.
This post is a copy of tweets by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn . SHA256 was designed by the NSA. BLAKE (the original) and BLAKE3 were designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
In this third article of our series on the making of a 64kB intro, we present how we use and combine a few simple techniques to create a variety of procedural 3D meshes for very few bytes.
A community and blog for embedded software makers
wingolog: article: i accidentally a scheme
This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.
I’ve put in my fair share of time with PostgreSQL. It has no shortage of functionality and I believe its expansive feature set drove a lot of its growing popularity in the 2010s. As my time with the database has worn on I’ve come up with a handful of features that I wish the database had. Some of these are ideas…
This post will be a bit all over the place. Several months ago, I wrote Hard Mode Rust, exploring an allocation-conscious style of programming. In the ensuing discussion, @jamii name-dropped TigerBeetle, a reliable, distributed, fast, and small database written in Zig in a similar style, and, well, I now find myself…
For the first SpacetimeDB blog post, I’d like to clear up some confusion that I’ve seen arise in discussions about SpacetimeDB and address some general misperceptions about databases. My sense is tha…
Yesterday I wrote that setjmp is handy and that it would be nice to have without linking the C standard library. It’s conceptually simple, after all. Today let’s explore some differently-portable implementation possibilities with distinct trade-offs. At the very least it should illuminate why setjmp sometimes requires…
A few months ago, I shared the article, Understanding Large Language Models: A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed, and the positive feedback was very motivating!
Examining the misleading claims in a published paper about Elixir security
What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
In constructors in the Java programming language, allow statements that do not reference the instance being created to appear before an explicit constructor invocation. This is a preview language feature .
What's new in Emacs 29.1? I go through every change and annotate the ones I feel are interesting or worth knowing more about.
You don’t need CRDTs You don’t need CRDTs for collaborative experiences. First lets get the ‘what-about-ery’ out the way… Things you do need CRDTs for …
