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Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
wingolog: article: conservative gc can be faster than precise gc
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Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
Learn how to add type safety to object IDs in a TypeScript codebase using template literal types.
723
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
How I build a website for choosing movies
724
Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space
Overview I’ve decided to start a series of blog posts to cover some details about scx_rustland , my little Linux scheduler written in Rust ...
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The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)
For a real-life implementation, see how Racket's math/number-theory does it here .
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Putting a full power search engine in Ecto
My diatribe about adding support for ParadeDB to Ecto
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An interactive guide to x86-64 assembly – moving data
This is the second part of a series of interactive articles on the x86-64 architecture. This part will focus on the first assembly instructions, visualizing the way data moves in memory when they are executed.
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OOP is not that bad
OOP is certainly not my favorite paradigm, but I think mainstream statically-typed OOP does a few things right that are very important for programming with many people, over long periods of time.
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Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction
The Django ORM, how it compares to raw SQL and gotchas that you should be aware of when using it
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You Too Could Have Made Curl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJmAyUr1j4 This is the video recording of my talk with this title, done at February 4, 2024 10:00 in the K1.105 room at FOSDEM 2024. The room can hold some 800 people but there were a few hundred seats still unoccupied. Several people I met up with later have insisted that 10 am on a ……
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jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu
Jujutsu (`jj`) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google. I have been using it full time for 6 months. Here’s why you should switch, too.
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Revisiting the NetBSD Build System
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
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Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention
This article will teach you about self-attention mechanisms used in transformer architectures and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama.
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Lambda Screen: Fractals in pure lambda calculus
Lambda Screen allows you to draw images using terms of pure lambda calculus. By using fixed-point combinators, you can even create infinitely detailed fractals.
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Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
In absolute terms they don’t have much overhead – think sub-microsecond for most uses. Which makes them perfectly acceptable when they’re used sporadically (e.g. only a few times per second).
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Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)
This is a tale of two approaches to regular expression matching. One of them is in widespread use in the standard interpreters for many languages, including Perl. The other is used only in a few places, notably most implementations of awk and grep. The two approaches have wildly different performance characteristics:
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A reasonable configuration language
I was fed up with the poor opportunities for abstraction in configuration formats. The many configuration languages that exist already were not invented here, so I wrote my own, at first just for fun. But then it became useful.
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Software Friction
In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality: Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction, which…
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Murder Mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring
This is the story of an investigation conducted by Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne, and myself. It was true teamwork, and we would have not reached the bottom of the …
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Matrix Client Tutorial
Welcome to the Matrix. Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised communication. Matrix allows users on different servers to communicate with each other, similar to how people on different email servers can email each other.
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Let rand = main as usize (2022)
The other day I posted something silly, and learned some interesting things about raw pointers in Rust.
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Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021)
How bounded higher-kinded polymorphism arises in practice, and how to express it in OCaml, in several different ways. Some ways are rather concise -- but less widely known.
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Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language
An esoteric, graphical functional language
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Blocking code is a leaky abstraction
Asynchronous code does not require the rest of your code to be asynchronous. I can’t say the same for blocking code.
747
Real-Time Settlers of Catan
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Rewriting Rust: A Response
Joseph Gentle wrote a post on how he wants Rust to change. I am already working on that.
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The Programmer's Brain (2021)
by Felienne Hermans
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Rust in illumos
Systems engineering, Rust development, and Unix infrastructure by Till Wegmüller (@toasterson)