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Brain Oriented Programming
Write code that's compatible with how your brain works.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,843 posts.
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Roll Your Own Frameworks
When I build an application, I build frameworks along the way. I recently realized that not everybody thinks this is normal, so I thought I'd give a description of what I do and why I think it's a good idea.
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Micro-monolith anti-pattern
Microservice-based architecture gains popularity every day. This approach has many advantages. The most important advantages include independent deployments, shortened and simplified deployment pipelines, limited communication between teams, and technology freedom. These core advantages support the quick delivery of…
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On Interviewing Programmers
I'll be looking for a new job soon, readers! And this has been cause for some reflection. In Emeryville, CA, there is an "international...
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Just Build It...
Thoughts on building, shipping and iterating quickly
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Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code
Last year I've fixed a bug in Linux kernel OHCI (USB 1.1) stack , which rendered my old printer unreliable: OHCI adds artificial delay of 1ms for each USB transfer of send-read pattern, while my very old, host-based printer expects very tight timings and constant latency, like some kind of CnC machine.
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Why Specifications Don't Compose
Recently my friend Lars Hupel and I had a discussion on why formal methods don’t compose well. You can read the conversation here. We focused mostly on composing formally-verified code. I want to talk a little more about the difficulties in composing specifications. This is half because it’s difficult for interesting…
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Multi-Core by Default
On multi-core programming, not as a special-case technique, but as a new dimension in all code.
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Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
Your trusty Dependabot (and other GitHub bots) might be an unwitting accomplice. Through "Confused Deputy" attacks, they can be tricked into merging malicious code. This doesn't stop here. It can escalate to full command injection via crafted branch names and even bypass branch protection rules. Plus, we disclose two…
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Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way
Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…
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Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
We are pleased to announce that btcd , our full-node bitcoind alternative written in Go, is finally ready for public testing!
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Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life
Stephen Wolfram investigates the discovery of structures since the Game of Life was invented--searching possibilities versus invention by explicit effort. A thorough look at oscillators, modularity, glider guns.
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How does Sidekiq really work?
An investigation into the internals of Sidekiq, one of the most popular Ruby background job processors.
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Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Last time we counted CPU instructions, let’s look at syscalls now!
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How to use a Python multiprocessing module
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
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On Device Learning
Before asking the question, how do I build AGI, you first must ask the question, what would I recognize as AGI?
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70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization
Looking at data for some of the most popular websites, we repeat ourselves too much in CSS; using declarations just once is often one solid avenue to avoid repetition; together, we need to put more focus on style sheet optimization.
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Starting a Django Project the Right Way
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Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
Run reproducible, immutable environments in Kubernetes without container images. Faster deploys, SBOMs-by-default, and zero drift with Flox.
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Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false
The Spaghetti Code Conjecture says that Busy Beaver programs ought to be, in some sense, as complicated as possible. Scott Aaronson puts it this way:
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SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
A short recap of how SQLite now has a WASI build
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Vibes Don't Maintain
A friend built an app for his restaurant with Claude Code and asked me to host it. What he had was a click-dummy. The parts of software you can see are the cheap part. The parts you can't are the product.