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The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't
Much has been written about a purported OpenSSH vulnerability. On closer inspection, the reports actually got most of their facts wrong. Rea...
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GCC: Patch to change default C++ dialect to C++14
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
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Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables
A few weeks ago CSS variables—more accurately known as CSS Custom Properties—shipped in Chrome Canary behind the Experimental Web Platform Features flag.[1] When Chrome engineer Addy Osmani first tweeted about the release, he was met with a surprising amount of negativity, hostility, and skepticism. At least, it was…
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Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics
I love Doom. Or, well, I love Doom 2, which is the game we actually had when I was nostalgia years old. I love the aesthetic — pixely in a 3D(ish) environment, and consistent in a way that meshes together really well. The classic levels are abstract (occasionally too abstract), but still detailed enough to feel like…
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More Rust compared to C++
More about the programming language Rust
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My Weird Ruby
Over the past year, I've been rewriting large portions of the Middleman codebase to better reflect how I like to write code (as opposed to the silly version of me who did the original version 6 years ago). I've learned a lot since then, spent pretty much every day writing mostly Javascript and trying to find any…
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Real time bidding in Erlang (2012)
I'm still on my way back from the Bay Area Erlang Factory 2012 (in fact I finished this post after coming back entirely), in San Francisco, and I've been starting to see a bunch of twitter posts regarding people posting their slides online. Although it is a good idea, I tend to view my slides as pure visual support…
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Building Microservices: Free Ebook from O’Reilly and NGINX
Explore the world of microservices with this free ebook from O'Reilly and NGINX.
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Instant Web Application
Instant TodoMVC demo (please use Chrome Desktop for now!), source Uses bottle-service library to implement self-rewriting Open your favorite web application, even a simple TodoMVC would work. Let it
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Binary in JavaScript
Over the last week or so, I've spent my spare time working on a new roguelike game, with a focus on extensive and interesting planet generation. A key characteristic of the genre is that the game world is procedurally generated and this one is no exception.
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Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)
In 2001, my favorite programming language was Python. In 2008, my favorite programming language was Scheme. In 2014, my favorite programming language …
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Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency
We’ve been working hard over the past five months and are very happy to release Pyston 0.3, the newest version of our high-performance Python implementation. The biggest features of this release ar…
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Limitations of the GET method in HTTP
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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You are the WM
A window manager is a program that runs in the background, and give you keybinds and/or mouse moves to move/resize and arrange your windows on your screen.
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Towards Realtime Deformable Worlds: Why Tetrahedra Rule, Voxels Drool
In this article I provide a chronicle of our turbulent terrain development, what lessons I've learned and what's next. Also, why tetrahedra ...
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Designing a garbage collector in Rust
For a while I’ve been working on a garbage collector for Rust with Nika Layzell. I thought this would be a good time to talk of our design and …
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Atom 1.1 is out
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.