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Migrating to React’s New Context API
Let's compare the before/after of React's new context API.
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My two year old taught me constraint solving
My two-year-old son used a Brio wooden train set to explain constraint solving to his silly Dada.
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Phonegap 2.0 released
The original PhoneGap 2.0 announcement, preserved with its historical context.
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Asp.net Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1
.NET 8 Preview 1 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update and learn about the roadmap for ASP.NET Core in .NET 8.
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Turing Machines
An interactive introduction to Turing machines, the theoretical foundation of modern computing.
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Compiling to Lua
We use nginx throughout our network for front-line web serving, proxying and traffic filtering. In some cases, we've augmented the core C code of nginx with our own modules, but recently we've made a major move to using Lua in conjunction with nginx. One project that's now almost entirely written in Lua is the new…
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Designing a Good DSL
A look at common mistakes in DSL designs and how to fix them
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Developing Service Oriented Architectures
Having spent the last four years rolling out a handful of service oriented architectures, some lessons are finally coming together, and this is an attempt at documenting them.
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Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
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Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
SAFA details the full exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, turning a double-fetch vulnerability in Avast's kernel driver into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11.
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What is the best pointer tagging method?
In this post, we are going to take a deep dive into pointer tagging, where metadata is encoded into a word-sized pointer. Doing so allows us to keep a compact representation that can be passed around in machine registers. This is very common in implementing dynamic programming languages, but can really be used…
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The Median-of-Medians Algorithm
In this post, we consider the problem of selecting the \(i\)-th smallest element from an unsorted list of \(n\) elements. Somewhat surprisingly, there is an algorithm that solves this problem in linea
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Parser Combinators in Haskell
In this article, we will show you how to implement simple parser combinators from scratch and how to use the Megaparsec library to implement a parser for S-expressions.
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Python Virtual Environments – a Primer
Create isolated project setups on all platforms, and gain a deep understanding of Python's virtual environments created with the venv module.
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Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)
Aaron Giles is a Seattle-area programmer, musician, web developer, and graphic designer.
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release
Ubuntu Touch is built in the open by hundreds of volunteers. UBports is their community portal — see how we develop, fund, and govern a privacy-first mobile OS.
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Python Is Not C: Take Two
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Proofs Should Repair Themselves
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Compiling a Lisp: Reader
Adding a reader to our Lisp compiler
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Using Docker to develop and deploy Django apps
I finally managed to deploy Django in a Docker container on production! I’ve been trying to switch to a full Docker development/production model since Docker came out, but only recently did the ecosystem mature enough to allow me to easily use Docker both for development (where it excels, in my opinion) and on…
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
Learn how to build a webhook, send it from your app, manage authentication, handle security, and provide a smooth developer experience to your customers.
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Storm's first birthday
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to s...
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Babashka Clojure nREPL as a system interface
Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development
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Building Containers Without Docker
In this post I'll outline several ways to build containers without the need for Docker itself including buildkit, kaniko, GitHub Actions, GitLab and Jenkins