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My friend Clift Norris has identified a fundamental constant that I call Norris’ number, the average amount of code an untrained programmer can write before he or she hits a wall. Clift estimates this as 1,500 lines. Beyond that the code becomes so tangled that the author cannot debug or modify it without herculean…
The Embedded Design principle, Jimmy Koppel's favorite principle for code quality, shown via caching code that looks fine but invites bugs.
Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Brave Muon Version, on Average
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin.
One of my tasks (as GCC maintainer of the inter-procedural optimization framework) is to make sure that it works well with real world progra...
I’m building a toy HTML rendering engine, and I think you should too. This is the first in a series of articles:
Covers general elements of computer hardware useful to know before reading the rest of the tutorials
Why Go’s stability and simple deployments is a good fit for a serverless environment.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
How to start off on the right foot
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that they had no more rooms, and he told me…
An inside look at how Ouster's multi-beam flash lidar architecture works, and why silicon-based design is transforming the lidar industry.
Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for
We all know that classic aphorism: Year comes to an end, Rust blog post press send. This is mine. There are lots of cool technical improvements to Rust that I want the project to achieve this year, and a few in particular that I’m definitely going to be putting a lot of time into. But this blog post is going to talk…
This content covers my recent exploration of writing internet services, iOS apps, and macOS programs as an indie developer.
A practical introduction to the programming language Scheme
(This article came about in response to some questions on the LL1 mailing list. It is now incorporated in Revenge of the Nerds .) When McCarthy designed Lisp in the late 1950s, it was a radical departure from existing languages, the most important of which was Fortran . Lisp embodied nine new ideas:
Proof of concept for compliance with GDPR on an Event Sourcing architecture built with Apache Kafka.
Announcing the Twilio API for WhatsApp. Simply call a WhatsApp API in the Twilio app style and integrate with your language and framework of choice.
V8 v6.6 includes optional catch binding, extended string trimming, several parse/compile/runtime performance improvements, and much more!
Minor nit: printing the predecessors of a basic block is a feature of the IL printer, not Clang. It is just visualizing information that is implicit in the IR anyway.
