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After countless commits, the generosity of dozens of proofreaders, and far too long proofreading the index, Modern Perl: the book is available! You can buy a lovely print version from any well-stocked online vendor (and you're more than welcome to...
I'll give a brief outline of how to enable HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c) in a Go API server when you are using Go 1.24 or newer. This is useful in Cloud Run environments, which handles TLS termination but can take advantage of HTTP/2 features.
How we gained 2–3% improvements in compile times by making GHC better at printing code.
This post is a work in progress.Inspired by a recent purchase of the Red Book, which providesa curated list of important papers around database systems, I’ve decidedto begin assembling a list of im...
This page is slowly getting outdated. In my spare time, I've been working on a major syntax revision, Firefox compatibility issues and a new version of this page.
At a fundamental level, a programmer needs to manipulate bits. Modern processors operate over data by loading in 'registers' and not individual bits. Thus a programmer must know how to manipulate the bits within a register. Generally, we can do so while programming with 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit integers. For…
In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!
We discuss streaming and vectored I/O in Postgres 17. This is an important step towards implementing asynchronous I/O in Postgres. In Postgres 17 we do not yet have asynchronous I/O, but we do see a performance benefit from what is essentially a refactoring work around the internal APIs.
ramblings by Adam Perry
Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
In this article, we will discuss zippers in the Clojure language. These are an unusual way to work with collections. Using a zipper, you can traverse a data structure arbitrarily and modify its content as well as search in it. A zipper is a powerful abstraction that pays off over time. However, it is not as…
A blog about computer programs, databases, and the future of software development.
About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why thi...
wingolog: article: instruction explosion in guile
Learn about the technical architecture of the terminal that makes it very hard to implement rich – or even “normal” – editing features like you’d find in an IDE.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Only nine months after I suggested Tailwind might someday hit an unpleasant inflection point, that may now be happening.
The Kübler-Ross model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model] outlines the stages that one goes through in dealing with death: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance This is sometimes referred to as the five stages of grief.Some have jokingly called
"Why do you jackasses use these inferior linguistic vehicles when we have something here that’s so precious, so elegant, which gives me so ...
Packing ternary numbers with efficient SIMD-friendly unpacking on binary computers
Why most memoization is downright useless...
