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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.
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The 451 status code is now supported
Get started with one of our guides, or jump straight into the API documentation.
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Twenty Years of Pandoc
A universal document converter
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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.
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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
a short post
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
I saw this question on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange: What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? The question was closed as opinion-based, and most of the answers were things like “its too expensive!!!” or “website isn’t airplane!!!” These are sorta kinda true but don’t explain…
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.
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Why Learn Awk? (2016)
Jonathan Palardy's blog about technology
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Things I Believe About Software Engineering
Inspired by Jan Stette's "Things I Believe" post, I decided to write down some of the more contentious beliefs I have about software engineering. I've selected some of my more extreme opinions here, so I expect reasonable people to disagree with me. That's ok.
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Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
The way I was taught x86 assembly at the university had been completely outdated for many years by the time I had my first class. It was around 2008 or 2009, and 64-bit processors had already started becoming a thing even in my neck of the woods. Meanwhile, we were doing DOS, real-mode, memory segmentation and all the…
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Curl, 17 years old today
Today we celebrate the fact that it is exactly 17 years since the first public release of curl. I have always been the lead developer and maintainer of the project. When I released that first version in the spring of 1998, we had only a handful of users and a handful of contributors. curl was … Continue reading curl…
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Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees
Say we have some things, and we want to be able to store and look them up in order. We could just put them in a big sorted array:
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Programming breakthroughs we need
Matyáš Racek's blog
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The other kind of staff software engineer
In this article, the author explores the differences between line and staff software engineers. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ea...
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Deno 2.8
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
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Go 1.22
The latest Go release, version 1.22, arrives six months after Go 1.21 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Disassembling Sublime Text
This afternoon I spent some time with the free trial of the Hopper Disassembler looking through the binary of Sublime Text 3. I found some interesting things and some undocumented settings.
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CLI text processing with GNU awk
Example based guide to mastering GNU awk
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Software Design Is Knowledge Building
The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
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Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we lo…
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Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
It’s quite popular to bash the Windows Registry in non-technical or lightly technical terms. I’ve just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our h…
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Ruby 3.4.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.4.0. Ruby 3.4 adds it block parameter reference,changes Prism as default parser, adds Happy Eyeballs Version...