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Gray Code
What are Gray codes, and why are they so useful?
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting
Ante has taken the first step towards something we all thought was impossible: blending reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. 0
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How We Automate Our Infrastructure
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Debugging in Clojure
A guide to debugging in Clojure, using the REPL
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Some Words on WigglyPaint
In early December 2023, I wrote a drawing program called WigglyPaint and published it on Itch.io.
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My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's
But, I guess he did win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2020 so I can't really brag. However, it was a great surprise when looking at two pa...
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A curl cheat sheet
MOAR DOX! Whenever we ask curl users what they lack in our project and what we should improve, the response is always clear: documentation. Here are the most common curl command line options when doing HTTP operations. This is the web page rendered as an image, click it to get to the web version. The … Continue…
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Strype, a Python frame-based editor
A frame-based Python editor for the BBC micro:bit
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Compiler fuzzing, part 1
Much has been written about fuzzing compilers already, but there is not a lot that I could find about fuzzing compilers using more modern ...
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Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha
How we developed a hybrid multi-DC and cloud monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Victoria metrics for monitoring system, app and service, and also business metrics.
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Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
After spending most of the past decade without a decent computer, all laptops with GPUs more able at toasting bread than proper gaming, I finally cracked the spare Bitcoin piggy-bank and built my d…
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How to contribute to the Haskell ecosystem
Easy wins for Haskell beginners
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Demystifying Tupper's Formula
A book I was recently reading mentioned a mathematical curiosity I haven't seen before - Tupper's self-referential formula . There are some resources about it online, but this post is my attempt to explain how it works - along with an interactive implementation you can try in the browser.
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A simplified Python simulation of diffusion
Understanding the real world is not always easy. A Python simulation can help. And let's find ways of making it efficient, too.
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Parallel Parentheses Matching
The parallel parentheses matching problem can be parallelized in different manners depending on the use case and is a good example of how stacks map to parallel hardware.
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NNVM Compiler: A New Open End-To-End Compiler for AI Frameworks
You can choose among multiple artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to develop AI algorithms. You also have a choice of a wide range of hardware to train and deploy AI models. The diversity of frameworks and hardware is crucial to maintaining the health of the AI ecosystem. This diversity, however, also introduces…
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MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality us…
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The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released
Last year, I discovered that the Kosinski compression format is actually LZEXE, which was used for compressing DOS executables back in the 90s and the late 80s. Its developer catalogues three versi…
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Testing techniques in Go
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Why does Heap's algorithm work? (2016)
Heap's algorithm for constructing all permutations is efficient and simple but not easy to understand. This article explains Heap's algorithm by example.
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Dynamic types have the potential to be more than "no static types"
They have potential to be more than "no static types", but that hasn't happened.
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Stop writing lambda expressions in Python
Note: This post was originally titled “Stop writing lambda expressions in Python” but I’ve changed the title after deciding that it was a little...