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Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
Coati is a developer tool for fast and efficient source code navigation and exploration. This is the story of how an internship at Google…
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,830 posts.
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Why aren't you using git-flow?
git-flow is a library of git subcommands that helps automate your branching and release workflow workflow, using Vincent Driessen's successful branching model.
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Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions
<p>As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. </p> <p> The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better…
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Making GitLab faster
In GitLab 8.5 we shipped numerous performance improvements. In this article we'll take a look at some of these changes and the process involved in finding and resolving these issues.
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How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck
Announcing Helix v0.5 with improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support 🎉
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Kalman filters and functional programming
A paper on Kalman filtering and functional folds that I alluded to previously has been split into several papers and posted online.
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Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
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LLVM 3.0 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
Like the blip of an intro on the front page says, my degree was originally in music. My running joke as a web dev is that neither has meaningfully required me to count past 32. And while my main concentration was vocals, I've since realized I should probably stop strictly calling this a nontechnical field, because my…
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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.
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The Signal protocol for Node and browsers
Signal is a protocol for encrypted chat. Developed by Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin, the Signal protocol backs the excellent Signal Messenger , and has since been incorporated into WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Google Allo.
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UIDebuggingInformationOverlay
Update, December 9, 2017: This overlay still exists, but this post’s instructions don’t work on iOS 11 and later. In an update to his excellent book, Advanced Apple Debugging and Reverse Engineering, Derek Selander describes how to get the panel working in iOS 11. He’s generously posted the chapter for free here.While…
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Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker
Snyk issued a Denial of Service security vulnerability for colors@1.4.1, following this vulnerable code. We highly recommend you revert to colors@1.4.0, and pin your dependencies’ versions to avoid blind upgrades of the offending version. We also recommend you migrate to a different package.
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Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
My Functional Programming journey was filled with dead ends, false starts, failed attempts and frustration. And I suspect that I’m not…
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Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
Tabular data is everywhere. I support reading and writing tabular data in various formats in all 3 of my software application. It is an important part of my data transformation software. But all th…
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the beginning of their career – assuming they can act upon it (and I really don't know whether my 20-year-old self could…
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SQL nulls are weird
Yes, you read that right. SQL does treat all NULLs as distinct values. I learnt this a while back while working on Convoy and again on LiteQueue: a Golang a queueing library. Basically, any column wi
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The Code Review Pyramid (2022)
Table of Contents FAQ When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas …
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Smart contracts on Bitcoin
While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, particularly smart contracts, to the table. Smart contracts allow developers to easily build things on a blockchain and we have seen a proliferation of new things built on the Ethereum blockchain as a result. But what if…
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`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
TIL: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword
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Correctness – A paradigm for sustainable software development
Edit (2019-04-09): A quick qualifier for future readers. This post talks about correctness in the sense of correct code and not formal proofs or formal specifications. I refer to correctness in the sense of avoidable runtime errors.
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Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers
New series of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones provide developers with direct access to Apple experts.
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Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.