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Here’s a bit of code from Kernighan’s and Ritchie’s seminal text, The C Programming Language . I’m not sure I’d actually recommend coding this way (as written in the book, the entire program has only one comment), but it’s so darn clever and concise, I can’t help but post it. This snippet is part of a larger program…
This interview underlies an abbreviated version to appear in the March 1998 issue of IEEE Computer .
As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn't get lazy and we've added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14.
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available…
A common assumption I see on the ‘net is that NP-complete problems are impossible to solve. I recently read that dependency management in Python is hard because package resolution is NP-complete. This is true in principle, but the reality is more complicated. When we say “NP-complete is hard” we’re talking about…
How is your startup sharing knowledge with the rest of your team?We’ve been using slack’s #general or #random channels to make announcements.We regularly post documents and PPTs in slack channels s...
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
An extremely detailed guide on how to configure WezTerm
Yesterday on Twitter the inimitable Morten Just posted a preview of a tool he’s created that wrap ffmpeg to allow movies, such screen recordings but pretty m...
Learnings from building MiniJinja, a template engine in Rust
This is the absolute best guide you'll find in the internet about how php handles typing internally and in userland.
This is an “intro packet” you can use to argue for the benefits of formal methods (FM) to your boss. It’s a short explanation, a list of benefits and case studies, and a demo. Everything’s in TLA+, but the arguments apply equally well to Alloy, B, statecharts, etc. Adapt the material to your specific needs. Quick…
Python's memory model is a performance bottleneck. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
Throughout my career, I’ve developed some opinions. Some have worn particularly deep ruts, reinforced by years of experience. I tried to…
My first big job in the industry had me as one of two people in Warsaw, with the rest of the team in Oslo. I’ve never seen any of my Norwegian co-workers at that point, but one the first pieces of direct feedback I got from my manager was: “the teammembers like you; they feel like you’re part of the team.”
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Many people struggled with my article about Alan Kay and OO programming, so let's talk about the main objection.
It goes without saying that we use Rails a lot here at 37signals. Often times, when we look at a problem, we turn to Rails or something similar, because when you have a high-performance precision screwdriver, everything starts to look like a finely engineered screw. Sometimes, what you really need …
Blog about VHDL projects for FPGA. FPGA tutorials. FPGA free books.
You use L a T e X instead of a WYSIWYG word processing program because they can’t cope with the high quality required for publication. But your nice professional looking documents can be ruined because you insert the wrong type of figures. Bitmap figures are easily pixelated because the actual size is not always known…
This blog post explores an alternative formulation of Rust’s type system that eschews lifetimes in favor of places . The TL;DR is that instead of having 'a represent a lifetime in the code, it can represent a set of loans , like shared(a.b.c) or mut(x) . If this sounds familiar, it should, it’s the basis for polonius…
Here's what no one tells you when you graduate with a degree in computer science and take up a job in software engineering:
