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Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
I stuck with Windows 10 as my primary OS for 6 years, despite being a Ruby developer. In this blog post I would like to cover why this happened.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,357 posts.
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99% code coverage (2017)
Do we have a good safety net to change this legacy code?
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How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010)
It's easy to append bytes to the end of a file: Just open it for writing, seek to the end, and start writing. It's also easy to delete bytes from the end
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Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
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Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, an open-source library for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS-like styling.
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Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions
Software engineer, etc etc
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Software design is also about relationships
In parts 1 and 2 we saw:
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Feathers 4: A framework for Real-Time apps and REST APIs
Today I’m happy to share the release of Feathers 4 (Crow), a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs in JavaScript and…
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Interview with Dennis Ritchie (2003)
dmr: I'm not a person who particularly had heroes when growing up.
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A guide to useEffect in React
Effects are a part of your data flow.
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Threading Macros Guide
Threading macros, also known as arrow macros, convert nested function calls into a linear flow of function calls, improving readability.
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The Kernel Programming Language
I'm developing a programming language called Kernel. Kernel is a conservative, Scheme-like dialect of Lisp in which everything is a first-class object.
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Why Rust for safe systems programming
In this series , we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best…
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Back to Basics (2001)
We spend a lot of time on this site talking about exciting Big Picture Stuff like .NET versus Java, XML strategy, Lock-In, competitive strategy, software design, architecture, and so forth. All thi…
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
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Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly,
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bliki: Strangler Fig
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application
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PEP 554 – Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib
CPython has supported multiple interpreters in the same process (AKA “subinterpreters”) since version 1.5 (1997). The feature has been available via the C-API. [c-api] Multiple interpreters operate in relative isolation from one another, which facilit...
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The Typestate Pattern in Rust
The typestate pattern is an API design pattern that encodes information about an object’s run-time state in its compile-time type . In particular, an API using the typestate pattern will have:
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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EDB Postgres AI
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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Explore Qt Demos: Interactive Examples for Your Next Project
Explore interactive Qt demos that showcase the power of Qt’s cross-platform tools—ideal for developers seeking real-world applications to boost their projects.
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
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Using Pointers in SPARK
In this blog post, I will present one of the most interesting additions to the community 2019 version of SPARK: pointer support. One of the core…
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The largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
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Waiting for PostgreSQL 12 – Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.
This is pretty important change, as it has the chance to cause performance issues in some cases.
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Postmortem of database outage of January 31
Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.