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Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,829 posts.
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Announcing Xamarin 2.0
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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Static Allocation with Zig
Introducing kv, a statically allocated key/value server.
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Use Haskell for shell scripting
turtle 1.0 announcement post
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Flow-Based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
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AWS Java documentation is fucked
Update: Eron Hennessey from Amazon has responded below with a new updated Java SDK that’s much easier to grok. The title of this article has since been changed accordingly. The problem…
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"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
Xen virtual private server hosting for the technically adept. Since 2005. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD virtual machines
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Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
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Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512
ICU gets Unicode right and pays for it. This post shows a different approach: fold-safe windows, SIMD probes, and verifiers for fast UTF‑8 search.
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Urql: a GraphQL client library
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Implementing Logic Programming
I just think it's neat!
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AWS CodePipeline
We announced AWS CodePipeline at AWS re:Invent last fall (see my post, New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment for the details). As I said at that time, this tool will help you to model and automate your software release process. The automation provided by CodePipeline is designed to make your release process…
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Explaining my fast 6502 code generator
To learn how optimizing compilers are made, I built one targeting the 6502 architecture . In a bizarre twist, my compiler generates faster code than GCC, LLVM, and every other compiler I compared it to.
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Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch
We're open sourcing our programmatic low-level container runtime, Styrolite
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Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?
Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
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PostgreSQL Basics by Example
Connecting to a database 1 2 $ psql postgres # the default database $ psql database_name Connecting as a specific user 1 2 $ psql postgres john $ …
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Of SVG, Minification and Gzip
Smaller files are downloaded faster, so making an asset file size smaller before sending it to a client is a good thing to do.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
I last wrote in April about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
This is a guest blog post by Michiel Borkent.
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A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter
A little while ago I wrote about 16bitjs, a 16 bit virtual machine written in javascript. It implemented a custom CPU architecture and assembly language, assembler, and debugger. I had the thought …
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Markov Chains for programmers
Materials for book: “Markov Chains for programmers”
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Eller’s Algorithm (2012)
Eller's algorithm creates 'perfect' mazes, having only a single path between any two cells, one row at a time. The algorithm itself is incredibly fast, and far more memory efficient than other popular algorithms (such as Prim's and Kruskal's) requiring storage proportional to only a single row. This makes it possible…