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Get Started with Tmux
Before getting started with tmux, let us go over some questions to see if tmux is right for you:
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Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform
New context editing and memory tools enable Claude agents to handle long-running tasks without hitting context limits.
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We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Syntax Design (2014)
A programming language gives us a way structure our thoughts . Each program, has a kind of internal structure, for example:
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Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter
Yaegi, Yet Another Go Interpreter, is an open source project to bring executableGo scripts, embedded plugins on top of the Go runtime...
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Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods
tl;dr CocoaPods is a popular package manager used by lots of iOS apps (among other Swift and Objective-C Cocoa applications). I found a remote code execution...
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An Introduction to Generics
An introduction to generics in Go.
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Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables
Benchmarks and theoretical explanation of why and when hashed radix sort beats hash tables.
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Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
Deep dive into Citus columnar storage for Postgres. Includes a quickstart, as well as performance measurements for data loading, compression ratios, and query response times. Also covers how columnar relates to Citus, integration with Postgres range partitioning, limitations, & ways to get started.
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Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
Tools and techniques used to test coreutils
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Ruby 3.1.0 Preview 1
Since Ruby 2.6 introduced MJIT in 2018 , its performance greatly improved, and finally we achieved Ruby3x3 last year . But even though Optcarrot has shown impressive speedups, the JIT hasn’t benefited real world business applications.
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Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013)
There’s a neat variation on open-addressing based hash tables called Robin Hood hashing . This technique isn’t very well-known, but it makes a huge practical difference because it both improves performance and space utilization compared to other “standard” hash tables (e.g. chaining ). It also eliminates the major…
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers
Learn how to onboard engineers with an empathetic and structured approach. Includes a 30-60-90-day check-in template.
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Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Q-learning is not yet scalable
Over the past few years, we've seen that next-token prediction scales, denoising diffusion scales, contrastive learning scales, and so on, all the way to the point where we can train models with billions of parameters with a scalable objective that can eat up as much data as we can throw at it. Then, what about…
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JQuery 1.8 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.
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How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me
Can you see the resemblance?