2521
Text editing hates you too (2019)
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You , published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,817 posts.
2522
It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
I’m happy to announce the official release of the Light Table Playground ! You can find instructions for getting it here: http://app.kodowa.com/playground
2523
2524
Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
What is a microservice? What is Kubernetes for? In this post, we try to explain microservices, containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes
2525
Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
2526
My approach to building large technical projects (2023)
Whether it's building a new project from scratch, implementing a big feature, or beginning a large refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that.
2527
Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
Announcing AoCO 2025 - daily December posts about compiler optimisations
2528
Jujutsu for busy devs
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2529
macOS Ventura is now available
macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever.
2530
Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
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Missile defense is NP-complete
Exploring the Weapon-Target Assignment problem: how missile defense connects to NP-completeness, SSPK probability calculations, and how saturation attacks exploit computational limits.
2533
HTML Form Validation is underused
HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore.
2534
Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
Run C# files instantly with dotnet run app.cs, no project file needed! Coming to .NET 10, try it out today in Preview 4.
2535
Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the…
2536
Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open
Internet debates about typing disciplines continue to be plagued by a pervasive myth that dynamic type systems are inherently better at modeling “open world” domains. The argument usually goes like this: the goal of static typing is to pin everything down as much as possible, but in the real world, that just isn’t…
2537
The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
Update 2019: This article got 183 comments on Reddit, and 237 comments on Hacker News. Many commenters said it couldn’t be done — they…
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SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
SQLite is a powerful database engine, but due to its design, it has limitations that should not be overlooked.
2540
Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
Hello, World!
2541
How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage
This is the story of how we assessed and refactored two video players into one, cut the player code each product maintained by up to 94%, and swapped to the new player without disruption to any users.
2542
Building Bluesky comments for my blog
I hate disqus too much.
2543
A few words on Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
2544
Migrating from Supabase
Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render
2545
A new JSON data type for ClickHouse
We’re excited to introduce our new and significantly enhanced JSON data type, purpose-built to deliver high-performance handling of JSON data. Our core engineer, Pavel Kruglov, dives into how we built this feature on top of ClickHouse's columnar storage.
2546
As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes
Fitting as much Stack Overflow as possible into 4096 bytes
2547
Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
2548
Writing secure Go code
Security testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknesses. With this knowledge, we can improve our Go development. This article shows how to put in place robust practices. They are fuzz inputs, verify dependencies, and use…
2549
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
I announce Xee, the implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust that I've been working on for the last two years.
2550
Calculus with Julia
This is a set of notes for learning calculus using the Julia language. Julia is an open-source programming language with an easy to learn syntax that is well suited for this task.