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Debugging is difficult. Debugging across multiple languages is especially challenging, and debugging across devices often requires a team with varying skill sets and expertise to reveal the underlying…
Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking, computational notebook capabilities, project-info tracking…
Building UIs in HTML+CSS can be untenable. When making complex frontend experiences, I reach for Elm.
All about changes and improvements that Godot 4.0 offers to C# developers.
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin.
Gleam is a Type-Safe programming language that transpiles to Erlang And javascript . , so you can run its code on the BEAM. I’ve slept on Gleam for a while because its syntax. It was too much Rust and not enough Elixir for me.
In this blog post, we explore Spotify's journey from using the Fisher-Yates shuffle to a more sophisticated song shuffling algorithm that prevents clustering of tracks by the same artist. We then connect this challenge to Fibonacci hashing, and propose a novel, evenly distributed artist shuffling method.
For an ABI that probably nobody uses.
Explore the C++ memory model and learn about migrating from x86 to ARM architectures. Enhance your understanding of memory management in C++.
Bevy XPBD 0.1.0 has finally been released on crates.io!
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Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…
In the past week I went to add Python 3.12 support to my zstandard Python package. A few hours into the unexpected yak shave / rat hole, I decided to start chronicling my experience so that I may share it with the broader Python community. My hope is that by sharing my (unfortunately painful) end-user experience that…
About two years ago I came across a .DS_Store file and wanted to extract its information (e.g. file names). After researching the file format and its security implications, as well as writing a parser for it, I would like to share my (limited) knowledge and the parser in Go / Python with the world. You might want to…
I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
In my article on HTML web components , I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React…
Talk transcript on various patterns that slowly influence how teams deal with reliability, and highlight some of the key interactions and behaviors I keep finding work well in the organizations I've been part of.
TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult. For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
What are the options for game developers looking to migrate away from Unity?
What options are there other than GitHub?
When teaching “programming”, a surprisingly small amount of time is spent actually helping students with logic – and a lot helping them learning & managing programming tools.
We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
A blog about game engines, graphics, C++, and more.
Many projects are littered with files that just re-export other files. These so called "barrel files" are one of the key reasons why JavaScript tooling is slow in bigger projects.
Of course, I’ve used Word here and there when I didn’t have a choice, but not since MultiMate —and before that, WordStar —have I intentionally sat down with full possession of my faculties and opened up a word processor in order to write something I care about.
Update: Ingress2Gateway v1.0 is now available! Today we are releasing ingress2gateway, a tool that can help you migrate from Ingress to Gateway API. Gateway API is just weeks away from graduating to GA, if you haven't upgraded yet, now's the time to think about it! BackgroundIn the ever-evolving world of Kubernetes…
