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Atom 1.28
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past
Let's solve application security at an ecosystem level by updating outdated and/or insecure blog posts to refer developers to better practices.
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A GTK+ 3 update
Plans When we started development towards GTK+ 4, we laid out a plan that said GTK+ 3.22 would be the final, stable branch of GTK+ 3. And we've stuck to this for a while. I has served us reasonably well — GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally...
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Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
Most strings found on the Internet are encoded using a particular unicode format called UTF-8. However, not all strings of bytes are valid UTF-8. The rules as to what constitute a valid UTF-8 string are somewhat arcane. Yet it seems important to quickly validate these strings before you consume them. In a previous…
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Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)
Cause a series of sequential operations to appear instantaneous or simultaneous.
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Go 2017 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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Python as a declarative programming language (2017)
If you look at the programming languages benchmarks game, Python is one of the slowest commonly used programming languages out there . Typical programs written in pure Python average around 40 times slower than the equivalent program written in C or C++.
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De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries
When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries Caliskan et al., NDSS’18 As a programmer you have a unique style, and stylometry techniques can be used t…
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Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer
Managing state in Kubernetes is difficult because the system’s dynamism is too chaotic for most databases to handle; especially SQL databases that offer strong consistency.
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Do or undo – there is no VACUUM
What if PostgreSQL didn’t need VACUUM at all? This seems hard to imagine. After all, PostgreSQL uses multi-version concurrency control (MVC...
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Nerves v1.0 Released
We are thrilled to announce Nerves v1.0 is finally out. This has been 4219 commits by 102 contributors since the initial commit on October 29th, 2013! This would not have been possible without our corporate sponsors and individual backers.
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Atom 1.29
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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How to implement strings
There are many alternatives to C strings. Here we explore the design space.
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Understanding contravariance
The concept of contravariance, contravariant functors, and the Contravariant typeclass defined in the ‘contravariance’ Haskell library.
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Datomic: Look at all the things I'm not doing
A post by August Lilleaas, published April 20, 2018.
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Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository
Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes various Git…
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More fun with reactive-banana-automation
My house knows when people are using the wifi, and keeps the inverter on so that the satellite internet is powered up, unless the battery is too low. When nobody is using the wifi, the inverter turns off, except when it's needed to power the fridge.
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The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Electron 3.0.0
The Electron team is excited to announce that the first stable release of Electron 3 is now
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Dependent Haskell
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Swift: When Unused Code Is a Bug
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Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in Amazon Linux
In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and…
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Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
Nix users value its isolated, repeatable builds and simple sharing of development environments. Nix makes it easy to go back in time and rebuild software from years ago without issue.
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Real time numbers recognition (MNIST) on an iPhone with CoreML
Learn how to build and train a deep learning network to recognize numbers (MNIST),how to convert it in the CoreML format to then deploy it on your iPhoneX and …
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Compiling Lisp to JavaScript in 350 Lines of Haskell
λm.me - Compiling Lisp to JavaScript from scratch in 350 LOC
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Introduction to compute shaders
Anteru's blog is a blog about development, software architecture and 3D graphics.