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Bring Your Own Client
Just a little note about the main problem I'm pondering these days...
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Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
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20 years working on the same software product
I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has c…
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Deno Sandbox
Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.
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Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
When you use Rust, it is sometimes outright preposterous how much knowledge of language, and how much of programming ingenuity and curiosity you need in order to accomplish the most trivial things. When you feel particularly desperate, you go to rust/issues and search for a solution for your problem. Suddenly, you…
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Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem
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Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD), I’m running out-of-hours workshops on May 12 and 16 specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. An…
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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
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Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
The entire book revolves around the "nine rules." After the typical introduction and list of the rules, there's one chapter for each rule. Each of these chapters describes the rule, explains why it's a rule, and includes several "sub-rules" that explain how to apply the rule. Most importantly, there are lots of "war…
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Flux is the new WndProc
React, if you’ve somehow missed it, is the new hotness in web programming. The idea is simple: each React component describes its view idempotently, in JavaScript. The view is rendered entirely based on a small amount of state the component keeps internally. Given the same state, a given component will always render…
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Reservoir Sampling
Choosing fairly when you don't know how many you're choosing from.
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How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
For the past year and a half, the team building Roc 's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig , for reasons I'll recap below. We recently passed an exciting milestone: feature parity with the original compiler!
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Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
This year, I’ve become increasingly acquainted with the DEV platform. It’s a refreshingly positive oasis in the large sea of angry Reddit commenters and “well actually” connoisseurs that is the broader software world. One interesting facet of this community is that it seems pretty beginner-heavy. I regularly see posts…
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Node v8.0.0 Released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
In my day job, I work on a JavaScript framework (LWC). And although I’ve been working on it for almost three years, I still feel like a dilettante. When I read…
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Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
A quick walk through demoing how to use Gooey as the frontend for any language or application!
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Joins 13 Ways
Relational (inner) joins are really common in the world of databases, and one weird thing about them is that it seems like everyone has a different idea of what they are. In this post I’ve aggregated a bunch of different definitions, ways of thinking about them, and ways of implementing them that will hopefully be…
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Devin: AI Software Engineer
News, research, and engineering deep dives from Cognition, the team behind Devin, the autonomous software engineer.
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Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
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Grokking Deep Learning
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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The Little Printf
This text is a transcript of a presentation I have given on October 9, 2015, at the CityCode conference in Chicago. This content is also available in video , and as a PDF Document better suited for printing.
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even remotely helpful. WebAssembly ?!
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The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?
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macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
I recently got a new Macbook, and began setting up the Nix package manager to install my developer toolset. I mainly did this to try and have a working setup without installing Homebrew. Since I ran into a few issues, I wanted to briefly document what I did and why in case others wanted to try the same. Why Nix? (and…
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D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Live coding measure stress, not coding skills