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A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)
If you're a programmer who's become fed up with software bloat, then may you find herein the perfect antidote.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,843 posts.
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Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
At this year's Open Source Summit in San Diego, California, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, gave a keynote speech. He defined TARS, a microservice RPC framework that was open sourced by Tencent and donated to the Linux Foundation, as "New ways to scale", a way of mass service. Along with TARS…
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Let futures be futures
In the early-to-mid 2010s, there was a renaissance in languages exploring new ways of doing concurrency. In the midst of this renaissance, one abstraction for achieving concurrent operations that was developed was the “future” or “promise” abstraction, which represented a unit of work that will maybe eventually…
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A different view on Functional Programming
If you have never heard about functional programming before, I’ll have the honor to instill in you my view on it. If you have, you might know that it’s usually defined by some of …
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Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
PHP currently powers [~75% of the websites](<https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php>) on the internet. It may not be the “sexy boi” of programm...
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Why I no longer use MVC frameworks
神の領域10作品まとめページに戻るはじめに総合まとめと称して、100作品とか50作品とかのまとめ記事を書いているが、作品が多すぎて選びきれない！候補10本くらいに絞ってくれ！という要望からこの記事を作成している人間は選択肢が多すぎると逆に選...
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A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel
A blog titled Shipping Seven has gotten a lot of traffic recently for their article about Windows 7 and the MinWin kernel – namely, how they’re actually one and the same. The argument o…
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Ambitions for a Unix Shell
As discussed in the January blog roadmap , I want to concretely describe a reduced Oil language , and see if we can get it "done" in 2020.
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Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
Search Engine add-ons will be removed from AMO on December 5, 2019. To continue working, they must be converted to an extension using the WebExtensions API by December 3, 2019.
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Meet Crystal language in its birthday. It is compiled and has ruby like syntax
Yesterday Crystal became one year old. Yay! :-)
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Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.
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1,145 pull requests per day
There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minute of API unreliability for the
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It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
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How Laravel Livewire works
<p>The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works.</p> <p>A...
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Winter Is Coming for Java Updates
Winter is coming for Java updates with no free public updates in sight! Get the support you need with Zulu Community and Zulu Enterprise.
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Are We PEP740 Yet?
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI.
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The Code Is the To-Do List
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git
While Claude Code and Codex have significantly accelerated the automation of software development, limitations in the context window of a…
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Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer
Even though more than 20 years have passed, I still remember wondering what it would be like to finish university and start working. Up until that point, I had pretty much spent my whole life in sc…
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Return type polymorphism in Haskell
In this brief post I want to discuss a fairly unusual feature of Haskell - functions that can be parameterized by their return type.
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Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules
I was watching engineers argue, someone was bitching about a code reviewer asking him to put more parentheses in a conditional: “As if I don’t know the precedence rules!” I don’t know them, as a matter of principle.
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Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)
The chart classifies programming paradigms according to their kernel languages. Kernel languages are ordered according to the creative extension principle: a new concept is added when it cannot be encoded with only local transformations. Two languages that implement the same paradigm can nevertheless have very…
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Building iPad Pro features in Swift
Whether or not you believe that the iPad is the future of computing, it does bring a ton of interesting new features and capabilities to the table, especially with the latest release of the Pro version. This week, let’s take a look at how we as third-party developers can take advantage of some of those capabilities to…