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Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.3: Fairings, TLS, Private Cookies
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Technology Choices for My SaaS in Retrospect
Two years ago, I started out building a new software product. From the start, it would require mobile, web, and backend components to make it work, so I had to make quite a few technology choices. Here is how those turned out.
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Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling
An introduction to signals: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023.
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Recent adventures in performance optimization with Rust
How to hash, index, profile, multi-thread, and SIMD your way to incredible speeds.
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
Create, share, and play with small Electron experiments.
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The Third Hard Problem
It’s not off-by-one errors.
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A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
Reverse-engineering the .car file format used by Apple's asset catalogs and how to parse it without Apple's proprietary tools
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Modern SQL: With – Organize Complex Queries
The WITH clause adds named subqueries to SQL queries. WITH is also known as Common Table Expression (CTE).
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Atom's autocomplete just got better
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy
CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.
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How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses
Here's the graph of a toy benchmark 1 of page-aligned vs. mis-aligned accesses; it shows a ratio of performance between the two at different working set sizes. If this benchmark seems contrived, it actually comes from a real world example of the disastrous performance implications of using nice power of 2 alignment…
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Garbage collection is useful
A long time ago, I spent a few years working on garbage collection in the J9 Java VM. 1 And even though I’ve since done mostly done higher-level stuff, having a deeper knowledge of GC has continued to come in useful.
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ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving
I gave this talk at JSFoo, Bengaluru, in October 2018. It describes my experience in switching to ReasonML on the Turaku project and how learning to use a statically-typed functional programming language involves much more than learning the language's syntax or features.
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Integrating Zig and SwiftUI
Building a native GUI for a cross-platform application is a decades old problem. Nowadays, most people just don't and fallback to using a non-native experience such as Electron instead.
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A guide to threads in Node.js
While it is single-threaded, Node.js uses worker threads that allow for a separate execution thread that runs alongside the main thread.
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How I Program Stuff
My method for writing code I care about: isolate myself for confidence and energy, eliminate every distraction, then code ruthlessly with no regrets.
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Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories
Cache rules everything around me. `pyc` files can contain secrets and should not be checked in to source control. Use the standard Python [.gitignore](https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore).
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Compilers for Free
I’m fascinated by programming, and by metaprogramming in particular. When Ruby programmers talk about metaprogramming they usually mean programs that write programs , because Ruby has various features — like BasicObject#instance_eval , Module#define_method and BasicObject#method_missing — which make it possible to…
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Mod and remainder are not the same
A remainder and a modulus look so very similar, but they are not the same thing and worse, are treated differently by different programming languages. Do you know how your language handles mod?
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Fixing Classical Cats: How I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
Every now and then, when working on ScummVM’s Director engine, I run across a disc that charms me so much I just have to get it working right away....
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A tiny language called Z (2013)
A tiny, strict, impure, curried, dynamically typed (although that may change), partially applied language with rather peculiar syntax.
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Python Patterns (2013)
python patterns diagram Over the past few months a number of people have come to me for guidance regarding various aspects of Python development, so I ...