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Towards λ-calculus
lambdaway is built on a wiki engine, lambdatank, and a small Lisp dialect, lambdatalk.
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Having fun abusing the C language
I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The International Obfuscated C Code Competition . It’s a contest to write the most obscure code. That the language C has a competition where you write confusing code in it probably says something about the…
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Sampling with SQL
Sampling is one of the most powerful tools you can wield to extract meaning from large datasets. It lets you reduce a massive pile of data into a small yet representative dataset that’s fast and easy to use.
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ClojureScript 101
While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…
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The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips
Posted by Bogdan Arsintescu, Software Engineer & Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kostas Kollias, Tamas Sarlos and Andrew Tomkins, Research ScientistsAlgor...
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Getting started with Rust by building a tiny Markdown compiler
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My Clojure Workflow, Reloaded
This is a companion post to my discussion with Craig Andera on Relevance Podcast Episode 32 and my Clojure/West talk Clojure in the Large. I've talked about ...
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Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and Metalinguistic Abstraction
In this series of tutorials, we will delve into creating simple 2D games in Common Lisp. The result of the first part will be a development environment setup and a basic simulation displaying a 2D sce...
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PyPy funded to begin support for Python 3 and Numpy
Last year was quite successful for PyPy fundraising through the Software Freedom Conservancy , and Conservancy and PyPy are very excited to ...
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Language Support for Marginalia Search
One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish. These changes are now live for testing, but with an extremely small corpus of…
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Visualize Data Structures in VSCode
VSCode Debug Visualizer is a VSCode extension that allows you to visualize data structures in your editor
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A kids traffic mat in Elm
A wrap-up of several years of development and the alpha release of Liikennematto.
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WebSockets – A Conceptual Deep-Dive
Get a better understanding of WebSockets are, how they work, and why they're ideal for building high-performance realtime apps.
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LLMs as the new high level language
[UPDATE 2026-06-09]: a few months on, I have more misgivings than certainties about this.
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Functional Programming – How and Why
Let's start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we get groups of numbers as input like: 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 ...
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Elegant Error Handling with the JavaScript “Either” Monad
JavaScript gives us a built-in language feature for handling exceptions: try…catch statements. And they’re better than littering our code with if-statements. But they can be problematic. And they are not the only way to handle errors. In this article, we’ll take a look at using the ‘Either monad’ as an alternative to…