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Lists play an important role in Lisp--for reasons both historical and practical. Historically, lists were Lisp's original composite data type, though it has been decades since they were its only such data type. These days, a Common Lisp programmer is as likely to use a vector, a hash table, or a user-defined class or…
I hate the expression “best practice”, it’s so, so often used by someone to justify the application of cargo cult without actually understanding why.
Here are some of the most interesting things I learned at DjangoCon EU 2025 in Dublin, Ireland, partially written with the help of AI: link to talks
Index A tiny ABI An ABI to appease the linker Catching what you throw Magic around __cxa_begin_catch and __cxa_end_catch Gcc...
Mastering the full stack isn’t just a technical feat: it’s a human challenge, and no, you can’t git clone your way out of it.
If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you
In every release of Microsoft Edge, we tune the Chakra JavaScript engine to provide better startup and execution performance, with a leaner memory footprint, and with improved responsiveness on real-world workloads. As EdgeHTML 17 rolls out to users as part of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, we’d like to dive into…
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
At work we recently started using the MQTT protocol, which uses a publish / subscribe model. It’s simple in the good way and well thought out. We went with an open source implementation named…
I’ve seen a lot of poorly implemented spinlocks floating around the internet.
The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.
C/C++-specific WebAssembly notes.
I’ve forgotten how to write code, or at least I think I have. Hard to be sure, I haven’t done it for a while. But then, I start to muse…
This is somewhat of a followup to my post on Lua integration from a few days ago.
Hamidreza Soleimani's Blog - Just about what I know
Updates (2024) Since this post was originally written, the FizzBuzz github repository has received 23 additional contributions so the total…
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
Slop, Alienation, Deskilling, and Team Fallout
In a recent Stack Overflow podcast episode , Joel Spolsky mentioned that he’s probably going to formally end his popular Joel on Software blog next month.
Dev build 3063 is out now, with a few small improvements. There is now an equivalent to the OSX command line tool on windows: subl.exe. While the basic functionality was previously available via just passing sublime_text.exe command line arguments, because it was a windowed application rather than a console one, it…
In the current year web developers are regarded as Jacks of all trades, they gotta do everything from manual testing to frontend ninjutsu, but is it worth it?
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People pick languages differently with LLMs.
The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That's about to change with the addition of functions like intersection, union and difference.
Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
