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Designing a garbage collector in Rust
For a while I’ve been working on a garbage collector for Rust with Nika Layzell. I thought this would be a good time to talk of our design and …
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A simple core.async job system in Clojure
In my off time (and my on time, for that matter) I've been working on this quirky thing I've called Scinamalink (sounds like 'skinamarink'). Scinamalink lets customers send Magic login links to their users with a single REST API call. If you don't know what a magic
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Mutt 2.2.0
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
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Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Open source Rails apps to study and learn from
If, like me, you learn best by studying other code here's five some open-source rails apps with something to teach. They're a great resource to study and improve your own code, or to use as the starting point for your own applications. All of these applications use Rails 2 but as they are open-source they are a great…
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The state of static analysis in the GCC 12 compiler
New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.
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An Old Problem Meets Its Timely Demise
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is one of the most popular Gamecube games, if not Nintendo games, in existence. Its mixture of an open world, sharp dungeons, and an inventive art style turned heads more than ten years ago when it was released. Dolphin has had its...
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Modern C is now feature complete
You find the latest version of my book at the usual place at This now contains all the material that I plan to put into it. New are “experience” parts about performance, function-like m…
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Build a browser engine part 5: Box model and layout tree
This is the latest in a series of articles about writing a simple HTML rendering engine:
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The End of Localhost
All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
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How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?
The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negative infinity. If you compute the inverse of the positive zero, you get the positive infinity. If you compute the inverse of the negative zero, you get the negative…
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The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
First a round of thanks for the many people in industry and government who provided valuable links, background and insights! I could not have done this without your help! If you spot any mistakes, or have suggestions, please do contact me on bert@hubertnet.nl The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal…
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Docker Compose Isn't Enough
Docker Compose solves real problems in getting applications deployed. It causes problems when deploying many applications. We can do better.
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Useful and useless code comments
I’ve been reading John Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design . At one point in the book, he gives this advice about code comments: Unfortunately, many…
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CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems
Apparently this horse hasn't been beaten enough.
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The JavaScript Problem
It makes many aspects of JavaScript sane and convenient, and you get a compilation check that verifies syntax, however it still suffers greatly from weak-typing.
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Why we’re switching to calendar versioning
One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering.
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Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab
Here's our CEO on GitLab’s inception using Rails, and how challenges are being handled along the way.
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The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued
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Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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What’s New in Swift 5.2
Key path expressions as functions, callAsFunction, and more
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Programming without objects
Recently I gave an itemis internal talk about basic functional programming (FP) concepts. Towards the end I made a claim that objects and their blueprints (a.k.a. classes) have severe downsides and that it is much better to "leave data alone", which is exactly how Clojure and Haskell treat this subject.
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