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Demoscene is the art of pushing computers to perform tasks they weren’t designed to handle. One recurring theme in demoscene is the shadow-art animation “Bad Apple!!”. We’ve played it on the Commodore 64, Vectrex (a unique game console utilizing only vector graphics), Impulse Tracker, and even exploited Super Mario…
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Whilst Visual Studio Code is "open-source" (as per the OSD) the value-add which transforms the editor into anything of value ("what people actually refer
Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.
I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
For decades, discussion of software reuse was far more common than actual software reuse. Today, the situation is reversed: developers reuse software written by others every day, in the form of software dependencies, and the situation goes mostly unexamined.
I recently posted a blog post about a new hash table, and whenever I do something like that, I learn at least one new thing from my comments. In my last comment section Rich Geldreich talks about h…
Beginning of the month Apple announced SwiftUI at the WWDC 2019. A single “cross platform”, “declarative” framework used to build tvOS, macOS, watchOS and iOS UIs. SwiftWebUI is bringing that to the Web ✔️
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After two years on Go, moving our shop applications back to PHP.
I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.
UPDATE: NDC London organizers have kindly uploaded the recording of Project Rider presentation. Enjoy! UPDATE 2: Make sure to follow Project Rider on twitter to receive further updates promptly.
On Friday, we migrated Soundslice from Heroku to direct use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) . I'm very, very happy with this change and want to spread the word about how we did it and why you should consider it if you're in a similar position.
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app
Recently the team I work with completed a project to allow Shopify to run in multiple datacenters . This project was a refactoring project in disguise. When you undertake large refactoring of a code-base with 100s of developers and 100,000s of lines of code, you can’t align by sending an email. The merge-conflicts a…
