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One fine day in January 2017 I was reminded of something I had half-noticed a few times over the previous decade. That is, younger hackers don’t know the bit structure of ASCII and the meaning of the odder control characters in it.
I read a blog post by Alex Muscar, “Beautiful Binary Search in D”. It describes a binary search called “Shar’s algorithm”. I’d never heard of it and it’s i…
Apple today announced the availability of new software tools that enable developers to create groundbreaking app experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render
In this guide, we share findings experimenting with GPT-4 with Vision, released by OpenAI in September 2023.
This past month, I have been enthralled by the Rust programming language given its unique edge for writing memory-safe, modern programs. Over the years, several languages have emerged as the most preferred by engineers to write resilient, backend software. The tides have shifted from Java/C++ into Go and Rust, which…
We hack an Android TV box into something useful
Today is a great day for Emacs - Emacs 29.1 has just been released1! Every Emacs release is special, but I haven’t been so excited about a new version of Emacs in ages. Why so? Reason #1 - pure GTK front-end (a.k.a. pgtk). This also means that now Emacs supports natively Wayland. Which in tern means that it’s easier…
Hey HackerNews, let me just drop my mixtape, checkout my soundcloud and “Death Row” is the label that pays me. How is the Graph Database category supposed to grow when vendors keep spou…
State is where architectures rot. Learn why OO, functional, declarative, imperative, IoC, and monoliths are all fighting the same fire in systems.
We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.
How to make the Go runtime play nicely with the Linux Scheduler
git branches: intuition & reality
For today I only have a very short tip – or maybe let’s call it an anecdote. (This is not because I didn’t have time for writing last week. Quite the opposite – I’ve been working very hard on one of the projects I mentioned in my 2023 planning post . I think I’ll be able to share some details next week.)
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
I really enjoyed reading Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide by Jeffrey M. Bacidore. Before starting, I imagined it would cover various strategies for trading in the markets, along th…
As much as I loved the beautiful machine , the passive cooling and form factor of the DB4 chassis had limitations. The best GPU I could fit in (and cool down), a 1050 Ti, barely managed to run Diablo 2 Resurrected. Playing could become unpleasant at 30fps in busy levels!
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams.
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
A dive into the app I designed, built and never launched. Stocketa was a personal project developed to serve as a simple stock portfolio tracker for casual investors. The app was built using Swift and SwiftUl and offered a custom UI, comprehensive transaction tracking, and a variety of features.
Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures in an editor I have been building, specifically the most…
A fresh take on the classic rally game with widescreen support, high definition UI, and countless bug fixes.
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
A rule-based data query language that thinks differently
Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transactional guarantees.
