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We are rebuilding Monica
We are rebuilding Monica from scratch, and this new series will document how.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,843 posts.
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Server-generated JavaScript responses
The majority of Ajax operations in Basecamp are handled with Server-generated JavaScript Responses (SJR). It works like this: Form is submitted via a XMLHttpRequest-powered form. Server creates or updates a model object. Server generates a JavaScript response that includes the updated HTML templa…
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Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts
The Clojure Core team recently released a new Clojure library, tools.build , that is a culmination of thought around batteries-included build support for Clojure projects. I won’t go into detail around the history and contents of the library in this post because much of that is found elsewhere, including the…
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Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code
Author: Eduardo Ochs eduardoochs@gmail.com https://anggtwu.net/ https://www.lua.org/gems/ https://www.lua.org/gems/selected.html Version: 2008feb17 Listings: http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.lua http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.out Preprint version: https://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth-article.pdf
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Parser Combinators Beat Regexes
Someone online was solving Advent of Code problems, and had a question about last years’ day 3 . They had a working solution using regular expressions (regexes) on String values, but they wanted to use ByteString values instead for performance reasons. They were surprised, however, that there seems to be a lack of…
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Dear Software Makers
Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube” . I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where…
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DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs
Why Domain-Specific Languages and good abstractions make LLM code generation reliable and reviewable.
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Poor Man's Web
The Small Web Renaissance, Finger, Gopher and Gemini. How they work and what makes them different from the modern Big Web.
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AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
Why clear communication—not clever prompts—is your real AI superpower
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Htmx Is a Erlang
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia , available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives , has been manifesting itself into existence recently ( recently: after 10 years of work 1 ) and has finally reached critical mass 2 .
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Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful
Delta Air Lines tells me it will take two hours and twenty-five minutes to fly from New York City to Atlanta, GA. American says two thirty. United? Two thirty-four. Yet, the captain just told me it was “one-hour forty-five” minutes “wheels-up to wheels-down”. What gives?
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A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Why I Don't Use React Router
Tech blog of topics that interest me - frontend development, functional programming, user experience, building cool things
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The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die
If you’ve done Fourier series approximations of functions, you had three reactions to today’s XKCD comic :
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Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care
I never questioned why code should be highlighted until I tried to make my own theme.
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Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes
In distributed systems, for instance when scaling out some workload to multiple compute nodes, it is a common requirement to select a leader for performing a given task: only one of the nodes should …
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Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...
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Death of a Language Dilettante
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)
I'm a Product Manager at Google. I use data and UX to drive great products. And it turns out—the toughest problems are won in translation.
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Anti-Personnel Computing (2023)
Neologisms for the current computing era.
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Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard
Working with pure functions is simple: you pass arguments, you get a result — no side effects happen. If, on the other hand, a function does have side effects, like mutating its arguments or global objects, it's harder to reason about. But we've got used to those too: if you see something like player.set_speed(5) you…