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The power of keeping a coding journal (2014)
This post was inspired by the tool jrnl which has been mentioned on hacker news.
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Functor-Oriented Programming
My style of Haskell programming has been evolving over the 15 years that I have been working with it. It is turning into something that I would like to call “functor oriented programming”. The traditional use of typed functional programming focuses on data types. One defines data types to model the data structures…
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.NET Core Image Processing
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and I’ll outline interesting features. I’ll conclude with a…
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Common Mistakes and Missed Optimization Opportunities in SQL
Made by Developers and Non-Developers
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When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
Batching work is more efficient … until cost rises nonlinearly with batch size. Then smaller batches are the most efficient. So don’t delay maintenance!
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Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
Python application distribution is generally considered an unsolved problem. At their PyCon 2019 keynote talk, Russel Keith-Magee identified code distribution as a potential black swan - an existential threat for longevity - for Python. In their words, Python hasn't ever had a consistent story for how I give my code…
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Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
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Writing space invaders with Go
The earliest memory I had of arcade video games was watching my older brother and cousins going at the video game machines at Genting Highlands. While our parents were at the other types of games Genting Highlands was more popularly known for, we were generally let loose to play arcade games to our hearts' content…
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Use fzf for tmux session switching
https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0
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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and ensures consistency across the toolchain, making it easier to manage…
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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software
Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. But that’s not always the case. In this blog post, we show how we fuzzed the ZBar…
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Light Table Playground Levels Up
I’m happy to announce the release of v0.0.7 of the Light Table Playground . This version is a serious upgrade to the Instarepl that brings the ability to manually evaluate things and work in your own projects.
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Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool
Anthropic released a new feature for their Claude.ai consumer-facing chat bot interface today which they’re calling “the analysis tool”. It’s their answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode: Claude can …
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Github is making me feel stupid(er)
I’m approaching my fourth anniversary of using github. I should hardly have to state that it’s a wonderful service, and especially so for being kept freely available to the open source community. At the same time, I’ve noticed over the past year or so that in many ways I feel less efficient using it now than I used…
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GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors
The trustworthiness of our platform is crucial, and our team is committed to developer productivity and Actions performing the way we intended.
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Writing a Game Boy Advance Game
I spent a lot of time as a kid playing (generally, pretty terrible) games on my Game Boy. Having never written code for anything other than 'regular' general purpose computers before, I've been wondering recently: how easy is it to write a Game Boy (Advance) game?
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CRDT Benchmarks
Open-source TypeScript library for collaborative JSON editing powered by CRDTs.
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What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)
A primer on GPU architecture and computing
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Go’s Version Control History
Every once in a while someone notices the first commit in the Go repo is dated 1972:
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Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022
I was curious to know if the functionality of VSCode can catch up with the native speed of some editors, such as Sublime. That led me to seek out where some bottlenecks may be and where time is being spent. In this post I look at both the internals and extensions.
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Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower? This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use…
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Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA
Today, fast number crunching means parallel programs that run on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Thanks to the recent highly publicized deep learning and ...