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PostgreSQL Schema Design
The Postgres database is rich with features well beyond that of any other
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive
Learn chess openings and variations online by repeating the most popular chess Master moves
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Creating your own federated microblog
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
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Zero downtime migrations
As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...
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Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Reproducible Git Bundles
Describes how to create reproducible and deterministic one-file bundles of git repositories for use cases such as backups.
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Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.24x faster across KernelBench v0.1 problems, and 1.87x faster across KernelBench v0 problems.
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Scripting tmux
I often want to start similar workspaces in tmux; for example I always want to tail those two log files in a pane , or I always want to start both vim and mysql in a pane, etc.
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Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"
Viewing my binary file with ImHex. The pattern language pane, on the right,...
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Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace
net/http/httptrace has been in the standard library since Go 1.7 and most Go developers I talk to have never used it. It exposes hooks for the points in an outgoing HTTP request that you usually cannot see from outside the transport: DNS resolution, connection acquisition, TLS handshake, the moment bytes go on the…
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Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
André Garzia made a nice blog post called “Lua, a misunderstood language” recently, and unfortunately (but perhaps unsurprisingly) a bulk of HN comments on it was about the age-old 0-based vs. 1-based indexing debate. You see, Lua uses 1-based indexing, and lots of programmers claimed this is unnatural because “every…
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Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy
Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.
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Switching from Vim to Intellij
From Vim To IntelliJ In the beginning, a love affair For the last 10 years or so, I have been a die-hard Vim user. I was introduced to Vim…
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Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
Recently our development team had a small break in our feature delivery schedule. Technical leadership decided that this time would be…
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How boring should your team's codebases be
Thoughts on how to keep the novelty in a team at the correct level for easy onboarding
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Game Jam 2 Results
Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
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Windows Explorer Through the Years
At a glance comparison of every major Explorer release
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright
Lest you think that this is a fluke that was quickly corrected, here is the /bin/true program from AT&T's Sys/V libraries as of 1990:
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XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
“ The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” – Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
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The carefulness knob
A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…