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All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeling physical systems
Marco Bonvini’s personal website.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,508 posts.
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Understanding Programs Using Graphs
I want to show you a little of what this sea-of-nodes graph data structure looks like and how it works, and I think it’s worth doing this for this for a couple of reasons.
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Implement with types, not your brain (2019)
When asked about the virtues of Haskell’s strong type system, most people will say the best part is that it lets you refactor with a zen-like tranquility, or that it stops your program from crashing at runtime. I mean, those are both great. But my favorite part is that having a strong type system means I don’t need to…
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Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Snyk's annual JVM ecosystem report presents the results of the largest annual survey on the JVM ecosystem, which gathered over 2000 responses in the second half of 2019.
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The Rise of SQL-Based Data Modeling
The resurgence of SQL-based data modeling is a something we should all be interested in. Here's why it's important.
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Where do argc and argv come from?
Continuing on from our tiny snake game , let's explore more into how binaries work on Unix. Let's figure out how our programs come to obtain their argc and argv parameters.
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Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?
A brief technical primer on Rust's key security feature, with embedded-specific context.
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You’re better off using Exceptions
Exception handling is an error management paradigm that has often been met with criticism. Such criticisms typically revolve around scoping considerations, exceptions-as-control-flow abuse or even …
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C++ still isn't cutting it
A blog about computer science, systems, technology, and sometimes vegan cooking.
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Gitlab 13.1
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
A lot has happened in the Nim world in 2020: two new major releases, two new memory managements strategies (ARC and ORC), the first Nim conference, and much more.
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IRC and Emacs all the things
This post is a succinct and technical description on how to bridge all your messengers into IRC and therefore Emacs.
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Building My Own Chess Engine
Exploring the computational complexity of chess. Code snippets in Python so you can do the same.
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A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
The “official” Python Docker image is useful, but to actually understand why, and to use it correctly, it’s worth understanding how exactly it’s constructed.
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Algorithm for Drawing Trees
I recently wanted to take a hierarchy of items and draw them in a nice tree structure. For example, a Family Tree. At the time, I thought “This will be easy, I’ll just Google for an alg…
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Why software ends up complex
Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. For people interested in building easy to use software, understanding the causes of…
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Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes
An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
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Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
A very late blog post announcing the readability contest winners, a new (very) annotated implementation, and a surprising sort-of security issue found along the way.
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See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016)
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a...
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Challenges with distributed systems
The hard realities of distributed systems, partial failures, network faults, and unpredictable latency, and how Amazon designs to handle them.
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A Defer Mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…
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Libinput's bus factor is 1 (2019)
A few weeks back, I was at XDC and gave a talk about various current and past input stack developments (well, a subset thereof anyway). On...