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Iterated Log Coding
I've created a new format for encoding real numbers on computers. I'm proud of it! Let's dive in.
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An EPYC NixOS Build Farm
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
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How we use IRC at Last.fm
Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring.
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MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
At Arduino we like to experiment with new technologies to figure out if we can use them to improve the tools we make for our users. We’ve recently been
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application
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Dataflow/Beam and Spark: A Programming Model Comparison
Dataflow is a fully managed streaming analytics service that reduces latency, processing time, cost through autoscaling and real-time data processing.
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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
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B2fJ – A Java Virtual Machine to run on the 8-bit home computers of the 80s
Back to the Future Java (b2fJ) aims at bringing the power of Java to 8-bit home computers of the ’80s. This project provides a toolchain to cross-compile Java programs under Windows.
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Tyre – Typed regular expressions
I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.
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On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
Kestrel : A completely open computer design.
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What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)
Socolive là địa chỉ được nhiều người hâm mộ bóng đá tìm đến khi muốn cập nhật và theo dõi trực tiếp bóng đá trên nền tảng trực tuyến. Nội dung tại Socolive được xây dựng xoay quanh nhiều giải đấu và cuộc đối đầu đáng chú ý, giúp người xem dễ dàng tìm thấy trận đấu đang được quan tâm. Cách phân loại thông tin theo từng…
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Translating a C++ parser to Haskell
nix-derivation 1.0 announcement post
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Categories for Programmers: The Yoneda Lemma
This is part 15 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Representable Functors. See the Table of Contents. Most constructions in category theory are generalizations of results from other more sp…
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Introduction to Golang Preemption Mechanisms
A short explanation of what is preemption and how it works
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Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite
At my company we use a small SQLite database. We define the schema in a single file with SQL CREATE TABLE statements. If we add tables, columns, or indexes, our application will create them automatically the next time it starts up.
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A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update…
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Howler.js - Lightweight Javascript library for Web Audio and HTML5 Audio
[https://howlerjs.com]howler.js v2.0.0 Released [https://howlerjs.com] Browsers have come a long way over the years, and we are now able to achieve amazing results using all of the great new technologies often referred to as HTML5. However, generally speaking, audio still sucks. Thankfully, Google decided to create…
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We're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases
Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases: one modern, reliable Rust core with many SQL frontends. After rewriting SQLite, we are now building Postgres.
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MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl
Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages.
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How I Got a Job in Web Development
The long, honest story of how I taught myself web development and turned it into a career.
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Non-Lexical Lifetimes Based on Liveness in Rust
In my previous post I outlined several cases that we would like to improve with Rust’s current borrow checker. This post discusses one possible scheme for solving those. The heart of the post is two key ideas: