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A giant 360 LED clock
A 360 leds clock on the wall
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Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)
Michael Snoyman's personal homepage and blog, featuring writing about programming, open source, health, finance, religion, and whatever else catches his interest.
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What is Software Engineering?
Nearly all of Go’s distinctive design decisions were aimed at making software engineering simpler and easier. We’ve said this often. The canonical reference is Rob Pike’s 2012 article, “ Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering .” But what is software engineering?
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Making Slides
I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you…
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Interactive computational neuroscience – part 1, spiking neurons
An interactive introduction to spiking neuron models -- all in the browser. Learn about modeling neurons as dynamical systems and the computational properties of neurons.
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Intro to Quantum Information Science
Someone recently wrote that my blog is “too high on nerd whining content and too low on actual compsci content to be worth checking too regularly.” While that’s surely one of the…
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Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter which makes the life of developers easier by automatically formatting your javascript files for you. This post should help you understand everything you need to know about using prettier in a project.
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Sum Types Are Coming (2015)
Just as all mainstream languages now have lambda functions, I predict sum types are the next construct to spread outward from the typed functional programming community to the mainstream. Sum types are very useful, and after living with them in Haskell for a while, I miss them deeply when using languages without them…
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How to Name a Baby (2013)
Meet the Name Fad. In 30 years, the names Natalie, Chelsea, Samantha, and Lindsay will sound how Nancy, Cheryl, Susan, and Linda do today. And in 60 years, the names Ethan, Cody, Brandon, and Matthew will be Earl, Chester, Bernard, and Melvin.
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The Value of Undefined Behavior
In several places, the C and C++ language specifications use a curious, and fairly controversial, phrase: undefined behavior . For certain program constructs, the specification prescribes no specific behavior, instead allowing anything to happen . Such constructs are considered erroneous, and so the result depends on…
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FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis
UPDATE: Two updates can be found at the bottom of this article revealing the findings from Fidus InfoSec and FSLabs’ response to the…
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The Approval Economy
Why every purchase is a performance “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” — Thomas Cooley About a month ago, I published what has become my mo…
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Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
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Incrementally improving the performance of a Python script
I have been doing a lot of competitive programming problems on Kattis lately. It is my favourite online judge, and I have been enjoying my climb up the Irish scoreboard in an attempt to regain my former glory of first place. In particular, today I was tackling the problem Pivot.
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Connected Components – The one Graph Algorithm you need to know
Graphs provide us with a very useful data structure.
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Briar and Bramble: A Vision for Decentralized Infrastructure
What if we could build secure systems that didn't depend on central servers or even Internet access to let people collaborate? What would a system like this mean for political organizing, disaster relief, or even civic infrastructure? The Briar app and the Bramble framework are an attempt to find out.
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Making art with SSH key randomart
SSH is everywhere in the development or operations world now. For development it’s what allows you to push to GitHub. For operations it’s what allows you to reasonably securely log into Linux servers.
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Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept
I work at a very ‘locked-down’ enterprise, where direct access to Docker is effectively verboten.
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Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust
This pattern is pretty common if you are interacting with Operating System APIs . Another example .
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