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A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck . A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
Tracing the x86 context switch in Linux throughout time
I wanted to convert some .webp images to .png on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT:
Wouldn't it be great to have a pet AI chat bot that knows you really well, and can give you free consulting, coaching and therapy ? What could possibly go wrong if an intelligent corporate-controlled system has unlimited access to your private data to provide you the best possible service? Well... a lot of things.
At RailsConf, the Citus engineering team found themselves sharing lots of useful Postgres tips on how to debug and improve the performance of your Postgres database from your Rails app. Includes topics like long-running queries, misbehaving queries, pg_stat_statements, pgBouncer, and more.
A tale of optimization during the ClojureD Minecraft workshop
Coding puzzles and their prevalence
TL;DR: Use C99’s designated initializers instead. Because it’s 2019! Edit: This post was discussed on Hacker News, Lobste.rs and /r/c_programming. It has been updated to address some of the concerns raised by commenters. One of the little things that annoy me when reading code is the unnecessary use of memset() to…
(This is a section of the lilos intro guide that people seemed to like, so to increase its visibility, I’m lifting it up into its own post and expanding it a bit. I hope this is a useful companion piece to the post on async debugging I posted this morning.))
There is simply no way you can do calculations with fractions in bash without relying on bc , dc , or some hacks. Compared to simply being able to use a + b it’s ugly, slow, and difficult.
I’m afraid of a robot taking my job. I don’t care about the job part much, I’m afraid of the actual robot. To replace my job it’d need to exhibit human level intelligence. That’s scary. Before that happens though, maybe some of its infantile, and less scary, brethren can make my job a bit easier. […]
A friend and I had a discussion about the basic skills that are often lacking in experienced programmers. How can a programmer work for ten or twenty years and never learn to write good code? Too often they need close supervision to ensure they go down the right path, and can never be trusted to take technical…
I’ve been using Rust for hobby projects since 2016 and have been working professionally in Rust since 2021, so I tend to consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Rust. I’m already familiar with all the common limitations of Rust’s type system and how to work around them, so it’s pretty rare that I have to “fight the…
In defense of one of the most important JavaScript libraries ever
Recently there has been a lot of ramblings in the interwebz about Oracle removing its funding for Java EE. A long piece by Ars Technica ...
Email clients have quirks that force you to use <table> elements, inline styles, and follow other bad practices that make development complicated.
A sad example of how easy it is to dismiss certain design principles because it does not seem relevant at the time.
If you haven’t heard of Alan Kay you’ll likley have heard one of his many famous quotes, the most popular, likely his 1971 gem: The best …
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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.
Definition. The consequences of making bad design choices when choosing concepts to model your product around. A conceptual or mental model…
