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Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (2013)
Almost a year ago now, Jack Diederich gave a talk entitled “Stop Writing Classes“, in which he implores Python programmers to stop creating classes just for the hell of it, and specifically calls out the common pattern of a class with only a constructor/initializer and a single method—which should, of course, just be…
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Gradle still sucks
I wrote a blog post a while ago complaining about Gradle, mostly from a position of ignorance: I had never really taken the time to properly learn the tool and I was frustrated while trying to stumble my way through working with it. But luckily, my company encourages learning and experimentation so I was given an…
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Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI
Welcome to the future of server-side development with WebAssembly! Today we are introducing **WCGI**, a technology that marries the power of WebAssembl...
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How async/await works internally in Swift
You probably know how to use async/await. But have you ever wondered how it works under the hood?
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How HyperCard got its color back
Uli’s blog on programming, game development, pop culture and other boring things.
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
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CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Overhead of Python asyncio tasks
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Honey, I shrunk the NPM package
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the surface of an npm package? At its heart, it’s nothing more than a gzipped tarball. Working in software development, source code and binary artifacts are nearly always shipped as .tar.gz or .tgz files. And gzip compression is supported by every HTTP server and web browser…
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Conway’s Law (2022)
Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.
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First personal search engine prototype
I've implemented a first prototype of my personal search engine which I will abbreviate as "pse" from here on out. I implemented it using three Bash scripts relying on sqlite3 , wget and PageFind to do the heavy lifting.
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
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Java 21: First Release Candidate
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
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I want XAES-256-GCM/11
I want the extended-nonce 256-bit reduced-rounds XAES-256-GCM/11 AEAD. It has infinitely randomizable nonces, a comfortable margin of multi-user security, and nearly the same performance as AES-128-GCM. Only issue is that it doesn’t exist.
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 173 contributors, 689 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.10 release on crates…
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“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process
RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating on our RFC review process and here’s wh
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A new way to build with Large Language Models
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.
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Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern
UPDATE: LiveView has added a built in, more robust way of using this pattern. Check it out here ! I've been using LiveView for about two ye...
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C Strings and my slow descent to madness
I’ve been on a C kick recently as I learn the intricacies involved in low level programming. As a Data Scientist/Python Programmer I work with strings all the time. People say that handling strings in C range anywhere from tricky to downright awful. I was curious so I decided to see how deep the rabbit hole went.
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I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)
Note: If you disagree with what’s expressed in this post, I encourage you to also take a look at my more nuanced and comprehensive post on the topic of code duplication, which gives a more thorough refutation of some of the popular ideas around duplication. “Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” is a…
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How to unit test code that depends on time
Suppose that the logic of your program depends on time. That is, you need to keep track of when something in the past happened, and what tim...
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How to make smaller C and C++ binaries
This blog post presents several techniques to make the binaries resulting from C or C++ compilation smaller with GCC (or Clang). Please note...
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Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
Update: CLion Nova is now available in CLion Classic TL;DR Today, we’re announcing a free early preview of CLion, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine instead of the CLion "legacy"
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Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
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Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation
The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)—a scalable, low-latency garbage collector providing sub-millisecond max pause times—continues to evolve. This session will review the design goals behind ZGC and provide a look into the impact of the upcoming support for multiple generations. It will also present general guidance on…