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Things I know about Git commits
Some of the things I've learned over a decade of Git usage, and working on writing good commit messages.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,843 posts.
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Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
In this post, CrowdStrike's Engineering team walks through one possible way of adapting a library to handle OOM events without aborting the process.
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The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community
I’d originally planned to write on this particular topic in response to increasing outreach to me personally, through my blog and other places, unsolicited, and independently from multiple communit…
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Move on to ESM-Only
Three years ago, I wrote a post about shipping ESM & CJS in a single package , advocating for dual CJS/ESM formats to ease user migration and trying to make the best of both worlds. Back then, I didn’t fully agree with aggressively shipping ESM-only , as I considered the ecosystem wasn’t ready, especially since the…
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Things I Enjoy in Rust: Error Handling
Things I enjoy in Rust:
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Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme
Disclaimer: This software is not ready. I am using it and it is stable but I still have to make it feel great , if you have suggestions I would be glad to take them. I wrote a list of work that I will attempt in the future.
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Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework
Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture
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Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
The Scala language is large and complex, and it provides a variety of tools that a developer can use to do the same thing in a variety of ways. Given the range of possible solutions to every problem, how can a developer choose which one should be used? This is the first in a series of blog posts aiming to provide…
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Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers
A loop invariant is a simple yet powerful tool for designing, testing, modifying, documenting and proving code correct.
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Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (2017)
I have written this post for developers in the Common Lisp community who asked why I am switching to Julia. It may only be relevant for the small set of people who use Common Lisp for scientific computing.
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Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)
In Joel Spolsky’s recent blog he talks about “Duct Tape Programmers”. These “pretty boys” don’t use complex tools like C++, Templates, COM , Multiple Inheritance, etc. They don’t waste their time going to “goddamn Design Patterns meetups”. They don’t do all the fancy things that speakers at conferences talk about…
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PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here
PhpStorm 7.0, the new major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!This release keeps up with the latest PHP & web languages trends, providing top-notch support for
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“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures, 2019 edition
1i1 “Xanadu ® ” and the Eternal-Flaming-X logo are registered trademarks of Project Xanadu .
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Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec
Why TypeSpec is the best way to write OpenAPI
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Data Wrangling at Slack
For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential. The Data Engineering team at Slack works to provide an ecosystem to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage, so they can make better and data informed…
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Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
In 1999, Lutz Prechelt published a seminal article on the COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM (October 1999/Vol. 42, No. 10) called Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Differences to Interpersonal Differences , henceforth Java VS C , which seems to have later (March 2000) been expanded into a full paper, An empirical comparison…
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
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Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods
Json parsing in C using function pointers attached to a struct
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Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures
When we first set up the llm such that it could play text adventures , we noted that none of the models we tried to use with it were any good at it. We dreamed of a way to compare them, but all I could think of was setting a goal far into the game and seeing how long it takes them to get there. I just realised there’s…
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Storing data in pointers
Some notes on storing data in pointers and the impact of >48-bit virtual addresses
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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
I've released my new iOS app, Vignette.
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