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Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide
This blog post is an illustrated guide to regex and aims to provide a gentle introduction for people who never have fiddled with regex, want to, but are kind of intimidated by the whole thing.
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What every computer science major should know (2011)
Given the expansive growth in the field, it's become challenging to discern what belongs in a modern computer science degree.
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I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
End-to-end Encryption Support, Smart Scroll Sync for Side-by-side View, New Logo, and More.
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Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
This year, I’ve become increasingly acquainted with the DEV platform. It’s a refreshingly positive oasis in the large sea of angry Reddit commenters and “well actually” connoisseurs that is the broader software world. One interesting facet of this community is that it seems pretty beginner-heavy. I regularly see posts…
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Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
A quick walk through demoing how to use Gooey as the frontend for any language or application!
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Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
ds160 has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
I’m a software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests include getting computers to behave, helping other people get computers to behave, open source, maths, and music.
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Kubernetes Failure Stories
I started to compile a list of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes. It should make it easier for people tasked with operations to find outage reports to learn from. Since we started w
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For the Love of Pipes
Why unix pipes are awesome.
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing
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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
Today, we'd like to share some of our recent work on Sherlock that allowed a pretty significant speedup when listing files in directories with a lot of entries. > Unlike our usual announcements, this post is more of a behind-the-scenes...
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
I recently hit some multi-minute delays on my workstation. After investigating I found that the problem was due to a lock being held for five minutes, and during that time the lock-holder was mostl…
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Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all, and now that Test Pilot is being retired I am unlikely to get to them in…
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My application ran away and called home from Redmond
I recently found a surprising leak vector in Windows 10 installations. We were porting our Beacon to Windows and for easy deployment…
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Event Sourcing is Hard
Despite it being sold as the one true path, event sourcing comes with some pain points when you try to put its ideas into production.
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A better zip bomb
This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb that achieves a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container. "Non-recursive" means that it does not rely on a decompressor's recursively unpacking zip files nested within zip files: it expands fully after a single round of…
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
A whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search
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63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions
I seem to have a habit of writing about super powerful machines whose many cores are laid low by misuse of locks. So. Yeah. It’s that again. But this one seems particularly impressive. I mean, how …
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Think in Math, Write in Code
Programmers love to discuss programming languages. We not only debate their technical merits and aesthetic qualities, but they become integrated into our personal identities, along with the values and traits that we associate with them. Some even defend a form of Linguistic Determinism that thinking is confined to…
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Some Obscure C Features
Pancakes and computers
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Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Hello! It looks like you're writing a blog post - would you like help with that? chuckles Me and my colleagues at Microsoft have decided that the world needs more Clippy - the adorable animated paperclip. To help with that, we're bringing a new feature to Edge 6.0. Web Developers can now use <clippy> to call up an…
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Rules for Autocomplete
Autocompleting text with known values seems like an easy problem to solve, but so so so many UIs get it wrong. I see this frequently enough that, rather than complain about them individually, I though I’d just write down the set of rules they often break.
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Why Go and Not Rust?
What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
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Fast Software, the Best Software
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability