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Faster arithmetic by flipping signs
Over the years, I picked up a number of tricks to optimize code. Today I’ll talk about one of them.
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Streams – The Definitive Guide
The Streams API allows JavaScript to programmatically access streams of data received over the network and process them as desired.
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Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software
My foray into free software
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How Beeper Mini Works
It’s a technical deep dive, so buckle up!
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Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?
This question is always asked. My thoughts are a little bit different than what I've read online.
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Will Carbon Replace C++?
Is Carbon going to be a real replacement for C++? Let's find out.
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Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go
Programming is all about managing complexity. Without good tools to manage it, the complexity of programs becomes mentally intractable for our limited brains and we’d lose control and understanding of our programs (imagine writing a big software system entirely in assembly language).
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The Repeated Deaths of OOP (2015)
Object Oriented Programming died several times already. This time might be the last.
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The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal. The problem with new URL() The “new” in front of new […]
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Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)
This is a follow-up post to “Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1” , continuing the journey of exploring Docker on Apple’s new M1 machines.
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The Modern CLI Renaissance
Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. I’d like to talk about this trend I’ve noticed, where people are rewriting and rethinking staples of the command line…
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Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
A couple years back I gave a talk on researching software history, using “linked list interview questions” as an example topic. Since referring people to a video is less accessible than just writing a blog post, I’ve reproduced the question here. So why do interviewers like to ask linked list questions? If you ask…
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Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
Applications can append events directly to ScopeDB and query committed data without a separate ETL pipeline.
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Why C++ Is Not "Back"
There are plenty of excellent developers I know today that still use C++ and teach others how to use it and there is nothing at all wrong with that. So what is the problem then? Why is C++ not "back"?
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My deployment platform is a shell script
my deployment platform is a shell script 2024-04-09 like many people, i fell in love with free software because i could install it. i'd come home from work and install a bunch of software. what fun! tee hee! a playground and i'm the prince! but eventually, relentlessly, it all starts to feel more like a horror show…
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There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)
Bill Caputo , through repeated conversations we've had, has convinced me of something very surprising. It was something that changed the way I think about the world, and how I do my job.
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Bitten by Unicode
One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF, which means text extraction. For dollar figures I find a prefixed dollar symbol and convert the number following it into a float . If there’s a hyphen in addition to the dollar symbol, it’s negative.
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No one gives a shit what programming language you use
I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today…
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Qt Offering Changes 2020
New low-cost option for small businesses, Qt account requirement for installation and long-term support only for commercial licensees
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a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick
Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
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Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem
My response to the discussion topic posed in Python Packaging Strategy Discussion Part 1 had become quite long, so I decided to move it to write a blog post instead. This post then started absorbing various draft posts I’ve had on this topic since this blog was started, morphing to include my broader thoughts on where…
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Global Mutable State
Global mutable state is one of the biggest drivers of complexity in software systems. We tackle a definition and how to reduce our reliance on it.
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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What Are the Tricky Parts of Embedded Development?
In this installment in my continuing series about the tricky parts of embedded systems , I discuss some important areas that are often overlooked or undervalued.
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A theory of modern Golang
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
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My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.