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Pandoc 3.0
A universal document converter
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,812 posts.
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End-to-end implementation of a machine learning pipeline (2017)
In the fall of 2016, I was a Teaching Fellow (Harvard's version of TA) for the graduate class on "Advanced Topics in Data Science (CS209/109)" at Harvard University. I was in-charge of designing the class project given to the students, and this tutorial has been built on top of the project I designed for the class.
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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
Expired Registration Recovery Policy
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Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
uv run - install, activate, and run in one command…
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.NET 6 Released
.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
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Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
If you want €:\, you can have it, sort of
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Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
Docker’s momentum has been increasing by the week, and from that it’s clearly touching on real problems. However, for many production users today, the pros do not outweigh the cons. Docker has done fantastically well at making containers appeal to developers for development, testing and CI environments—however, it has…
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Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
"Move fast and break things: A cautionary tale from Facebook's code quality woes."
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The Zed Debugger Is Here
From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.
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Unit Testing Is Overrated
The importance of testing in modern software development is really hard to overstate. Delivering a successful product is not something you do once and forget about, but is rather a continuous and recurring process. With every line of code that changes,…
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Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
How James Somers reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
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Things you don't need JavaScript for
Javascript can do a lot, but it's really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let's have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript (or a backend) - from animated diagrams to dark mode.
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
I recently hit some multi-minute delays on my workstation. After investigating I found that the problem was due to a lock being held for five minutes, and during that time the lock-holder was mostl…
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Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all, and now that Test Pilot is being retired I am unlikely to get to them in…
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A few HTML tips
A while ago I wrote an article with some CSS tips, now it’s time to give some polish to our HTML! In this article I’ll share some tips and advice ...
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The most expensive number in engineering
How to put a price on the limits of knowledge
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Guide to Python Debugging
<p> Even if you write clear and readable code, even if you cover your code with tests, even if you are very experienced developer, weird bugs will inevitab...
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Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.8, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, an alternative to Slack, HipChat, and IRC. Zulip combines the immediacy of chat with the asynchronous efficiency of email-style threading, …
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Every HTML Element
An interactive page demonstrating every HTML element.
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How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)
How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!
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