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Exploratory Haskell (2015)
It doesn’t have to be so thought out.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Researching and restoring differences in game’s post-processing and lighting - with bug fixes.
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Tools I Use - tmux
Why I switched from GNU screen to tmux: horizontal and vertical splits, sane defaults, and auto-arranged panes. Plus my short .tmux.conf and resources.
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Deconstructing Go Type Parameters
Why the function signatures in the slices packages are so complicated.
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How you can track your personal finances using Python
In this post, I'd like to describe how you can track your personal finances using a workflow that is highly focused on data privacy, is 100% self-hosted, and uses only the Python ecosystem.
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Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating
Programming languages new (Java) and old (Fortran), and their compilers, still lack competent support for features of IEEE 754 so painstakingly provided by practically all hardware nowadays. […] Programmers seem unaware that IEEE 754 is a standard for their programming environment, not just for hardware. William Kahan
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Learn to code like it's 1996
I’ve been meaning to write up my take on the learn to code movement for quite some time now, but for one reason or another haven’t managed to get around to it. Now that the president is endorsing Computer Science and telling Americans to learn to code, this post has jumped to the top of my priority list.
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Upsert in SQL
Inserting and updating data with a single query.
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Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust
Optimizing a math expression parser for speed and memory.
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Getting Started with Mistral-7b-Instruct-v0.1
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love macros
“A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Rust Developers From Being Exposed To Procedural Macros”
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The Jujutsu version control system
The missing introduction.
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A Python-first data lakehouse
Prototype in Marimo, deploy in Bauplan. Learn how to build production-grade pipelines from notebooks with a Python-native stack. No handoffs, no rewrites.
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NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing
NSCopyObject is a very old Foundation function – pre-dating Mac OS X entirely; from the NeXT era – that was originally basically just memcpy , but now it’s complicated. A lot more complicated.
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Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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TypeScript 3.7: The Biggest Features and How to Use Them
The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it's going to be a big one. The target release date is November 5th, and there's some seriously exciting...
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Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8
.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.
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Shell scripting with Elixir
Using Elixir instead of Python or Ruby for shell scripting.
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My favourite Zsh features
Software development blog of Joe Wright
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Writing a recursive ascent parser by hand
I’ve been exploring various ways to write parsers. For a long time, I’ve used hand-written recursive descent for its straightforwardness, flexibility, and performance. There is another way—parser generators like Menhir , LALRPOP , or the venerable Bison use the bottom-up LR algorithm .
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Coding backwards
For a while I’ve wanted to write some personal finance software. Call me crazy, but I can’t find anything currently in existence that allows me to project my earnings and expenses 1 , then summarizes the net effect over a period of time. Basically, I want to be able to propose a budget to myself and simulate how it…