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Update 01/07/19 Greetings from 2019! The good news is that Chicago isn’t yet a radioactive crater. The bad news is almost everything I said about refinement in this article is wrong. I’m working on writing a more in-depth, rigorous treatment of refinement as its own article. But this one is currently explaining…
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk [1] after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here for it.
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
blog-cells can turn any web page into an interactive code notebook, similar to Jupyter notebooks, but powered by JavaScript and running entirely in the browser.
We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is import…
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened?
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
Overview of how to handle errors in the current version of the Rust programming language.
Like many developers exploring the world of wearables, I’m an avid fan of apps that track your exercise. Companies like Strava & Runkeeper have paved the way for what we can do with motion and health data, creating new and… Continue reading Introduction to Apple WatchKit with Core Motion — Tracking Jumping Jacks
Here at FlexMonkey Towers, the ever beautiful Mrs FlexMonkey and I love to spend our Sunday mornings luxuriating in bed drinking Mimosa...
Build a program synthesis tool, to generate programs from specifications, in 20 lines of code using Rosette.
In a previous post, I wrote a bit about how Ruby objects are laid out in memory. Today we’ll use that information to write a program that will allow us to take a Ruby heap dump and visualize the layout and fragmentation of that heap. Ruby Object Layout Recap Just as a recap, Ruby objects are fixed width. That is…
Long ago, I wrote git-subtree to work around some of my annoyances with git submodules. I've learned a lot since then, and the development e...
Mapping the walkable surfaces on the island of The Witness as a step toward bulletproofing the player movement code.
How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series. Part one appeared Monday and part two appeared yesterday.)
Have you ever had a weird idea, and then it worked, but you can't really believe it?
Ember.js (or should we say Amber.js) turned five years old last December. In some ways, five years is a short amount of time. But when measured in web framework years, it...
This series of articles is a tutorial on the theory and practice of developing language parsers and compilers. Before we are finished, we will have covered every aspect of compiler construction, designed a new programming language, and built a working compiler.
News post: Gleam v1.17.0 released!
In this post, I'll describe some common pitfalls regarding the use of the 'time-travel' features of Datomic ( db.asOf() , db.history() , :db/txInstant ).
