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LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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The underwhelming impact of software engineering research
This article was prompted by responses to a tweet I wrote in response to an analysis of the research area of papers submitted to the 2022 ICSE conference, the flagship conference for software engineering research. These led me to reflect on software engineering research in general. I’m sorry to say that I think that…
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Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
As of 1.9.0, GitHub Actions is available in your terminal. Two new top-level commands, `gh run` and `gh workflow`, provide insight into workflow runs.
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Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
How to use splits in Vim.
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Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times
Relax is a live compiler and JIT runtime for Rust, written in Rust. It runs a Cargo package straight from source, with no rustc, LLVM or linker in the loop.
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Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)
Cause a series of sequential operations to appear instantaneous or simultaneous.
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Emotions: A Code Book
What I write about my own personal journey is intended as just that—my personal journey.
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Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance
OR in the WHERE condition of a PostgreSQL database query is usually a cause of bad query performance. How to rewrite queries without OR.
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Java Reflection, 1000x Faster
A few weeks ago I got to make some of my code 1000 times faster, without changing the underlying complexity! As the title implies, this involved making Java reflection calls faster.
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Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified
Read about Qodo scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified in our blog.
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Sort branches by last commit date
I have too many git branches and like many people I developed a convoluted script to show me the most recent ones. I ran this command many times a day for years:
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An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling
Explore what’s new, what’s next, and what should be on your radar in the world of transportation. Our insights are supported by real-world data from our partners across the globe.
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Data Structures in the Fleet Editor
This is a multipart series on building Fleet, a next generation IDE by JetBrains. Part I - Architecture Overview Part II - Breaking down the editor Part III – State Management Part IV – D
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Go 2017 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs
Heroku has many public API endpoints. See how Heroku uses JSON Schema to test and document our Platform API–and how it helped us uncover an unexpected bug.
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The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y
There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, […]
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Why I Love Haskell: An Example
In this post I'm going to talk about a small Haskell implementation I wrote which would have been much more difficult to write in other lang...
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Python as a declarative programming language (2017)
If you look at the programming languages benchmarks game, Python is one of the slowest commonly used programming languages out there . Typical programs written in pure Python average around 40 times slower than the equivalent program written in C or C++.
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Compiling a Mac OS 8 Application on MacOS Sierra
A light hearted look back at my time programming in the 1990s as I try to get an old Minesweeper implementation of mine from 1999, written in C++ using PowerPlant for Mac OS 8, compiling in Xcode 8 and running on macOS Sierra.
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Local-First and Ejectable
An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about.
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Parallelism in Crystal
Crystal has made a huge step forward to have parallelism as a first class citizen. In short, you can set up the number of worker threads on runtime and each new fiber will be scheduled to run on one of them. Channel and select will work seamlessly. You are allowed to share memory between workers, but you will probably…
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How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
How to crawl the web with Scrapy without harming websites. Here are a few tips for netizens who want to build polite and considerate web crawlers.
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