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There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
“Hey, you. Yes you, that function over there. When you’re cleaning up please remember to restore all of my registers. Yes, that one too – what do you think this is, Linux?”That’s the problem I was …
The {fmt} formatting library is known for its small binary footprint, often producing code that is several times smaller per function call compared to alternatives like IOStreams, Boost Format, or, somewhat ironically, tinyformat. This is mainly achieved through careful application of type erasure on various levels…
Any company using Kubernetes eventually starts looking into developing their custom controllers. After all, what’s not to like about being able to provision resources with declarative configuration: Control loops are fun, and Kubebuilder makes...
Concise learning resource for beginner to intermediate level Vim users
Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me
A couple of Sundays ago, I wrote an implementation of Dijkstra’s algorithm in Clojure. The core algorithm came to twenty-five lines. I banged out the code as...
CSS Grid has been available in most major browsers since early 2017, and it makes web layout more powerful than ever before. But complex-looking new syntax (line-names! grid-areas! minmax! fit-content! ...
Complexity has to live somewhere; but it does not have to live everywhere.
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address ...
The following article summarizes my lessons learned from the books Deep Work and Flow. It can be the way to achieve a fulfilled life. Cal Newport and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi have written outstanding books in their ...
SQLite has evolved far beyond a simple embedded database. Explore modern features like JSON, FTS5, window functions, strict tables, and more.
How far can I get in Advent of Code if I do all the problems in Dreams?
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We're pleased to announce the 1.6 release of PyPy. This release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements over 1.5, and improve...
A tutorial Formal Verification using Lean for cryptographic engineers. Implement and prove correctness of the One-Time pad following a cryptography book.
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached building games with Lisp. I think these…
Understanding large codebase can be incredibly difficult. In this post I walk through how I learn a codebase use turbopack as my case study.
Explore SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works by Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer. Deep dive into database internals, systems engineering, and advanced Python.
The heap is a data structure that I use all the time and that others somehow use rarely. (I once had a coworker tell me that he knew some code was mine because it used a heap) Recently I was writin…
What happens when you challenge hundreds of elite programmers to put on their robes and wizard hats, enchant their minions to solve a constantly shifting multi-agent traveling salesman problem, use the loot to build mighty armies, and vie for eternal glory and tournament prizes? You get a lot of
Starting with a 192-byte one-liner that implements a Reverse Polish Notation arithmetic compiler, we'll work backward to transform it into readable JavaScript by removing one code golf trick at a time
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016-12-25), with archive and current documentation links.
