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REBOL Oneliners
One-liners are like Haiku poetry. Not always practical, not always readable, they are fun to write. As with any art, some are better than others, but from time-to-time, a true gem pops up.
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Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,843 posts.
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Criminal Overengineering
A vast proportion of software at work today is horribly over-engineered for its task. And I’m not talking about the interfaces, about having too many controls or options for the users. These …
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Exploring Coroutines in PHP
Coroutines are functions that pause and resume with state, allowing flexible, bidirectional control flow in PHP.
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Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster
c’mon, try doing a breakthrough
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EdgeDB: A New Beginning
In a few weeks we will release the first public technology preview of EdgeDB—a new open-source object-relational database. This post is a brief introduction and is the first in the series.
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An alternative front end for Haskell?
λm.me - An alternative frontend for Haskell?
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Apple’s iOS7 Native JavaScript Bridge
At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.
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The IDE as a value
In my last post I talked about building a game in ClojureScript using a Component-Entity-System engine and I hinted that the ideas that underly that architecture inspired how we designed Light Table . The reason why stems from the architectural goals of the project:
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Emacs Is a Lispboard
What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal…
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Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
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Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust
Finally sitting down to learn Rust and how to write parsers.
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Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs
Cattle not pets The majority of AWS EC2 I need to operate these days are members of Kubernetes clusters. For remote access to them I’m more commonly authenticating to the Kube API to spawn a privileged ephemeral debugger pod rather than accessing the host directly. I have little need for host access even for the…
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Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Patterns with Rust Types
Patterns to use types for better safety and design
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Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
Back in 2015, Brian Will wrote a provocative blog post: Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story . He followed it up with a video called Object-Oriented Programming is Bad , which is much more detailed. I recommend taking the time to watch the video, but here’s my one-paragraph summary:
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Introducing "Functional JavaScript"
A few years ago I got the idea that it would be fun to implement a variant of Scheme targeting the JVM. During my search for different ways to implement numerics I looked deeply at the implementation of two languages: JScheme and a little-known language Clojure . During my explorations with these two languages and the…
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Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)
Sketches of an interactive arithmetic for programming by Glen Chiacchieri.
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The Musl Preprocessor Debate
Today, I would like to discuss a project that I care very deeply about: the musl libc. One of the most controversial and long-standing debates in the musl community is that musl does not define a p…
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Starting data analysis with R: Things I wish I'd been told
R is a very powerful open source environment for data analysis, statistics and graphing, with thousands of packages available. After my previous blog post about likert-scales and metadata in R , a few of my colleagues mentioned that they were learning R through a Coursera course on data analysis . I have been working…
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
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When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination
Part of a recent assignment for one of my classes involved calculating the Fibonacci sequence both recursively and iteratively and measuring the speed of each method. (BONUS: For a fun diversion, here is a paper I wrote about using the Golden Ratio, which is closely related to the Fibonacci sequence, as a base for a…
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Higher quality random floats
Much has been written about how to generate random 64-bit integers; people might argue over which particular (CS)PRNG is best suited for a given task, but there is agreement on the general shape of the solution: keep some state around, and then extract 64 bits of randomness at a time, where each bit is equally likely…
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Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (1999)
(Written in July 1999 for www.linuxworld.com ; permanently installed now in Web Tools Review )
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The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown
Custom Elements are basically Markdown for HTML
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