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Thoughts on Seed Oil
Don't get distracted.
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Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
The .NET team has been working on a new experiment called async2, which is a new implementation of the async/await pattern that is designed to be more efficient and more flexible than the current implementation. It started with green threads and ended with an experiment that moves async and await to the runtime. This…
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My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK
My experience and tips for being a software developer contractor, in the UK
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Debugging my wife's alarm clock
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went out" sort of way.
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TCP connection timeout mystery
For over a year, I’ve been investigating a strange issue with the internet in my apartment. I’m posting the details here in case someone more knowledgeable than me can solve the mystery. I live in graduate student housing with internet provided by the university campus. Usually things work reasonably well, with one…
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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?
We lost the female counterpart to Pac-Man in 2020, but Namco had been plotting her demise years beforehand.
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Into CPS, Never to Return
CPS, or continuation-passing style, is an intermediate representation for programs, particularly functional programs. It’s used in compilers for languages such as SML and Scheme. Much of its utility comes from its support for tail calls and nonlocal control flow such as call/cc, but it can also be used as an…
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Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
So zero-cost abstractions exist?
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Graphics Tricks from Boomers
Technical details about a recent 4096bytes Atari-STE intro, by Arnaud Carré
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Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace
One of the great strengths of strace as a debugging tool is that it shows you what a program is doing regardless of whether it was compiled with debug info or not. The downside of this is that you …
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Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
Lineage OS is based on the Android Open-Source Project, whose primary maintainer is Google. To what extent can it be considered Google-free?
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Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust)
How do you solve a memory heisenbug?
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What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?
A few years ago, on a whim, I wrote YAIOUOM. YAOIOUM was a static analyzer for Rust that checked that the code was using units of measures correctly, e.g. a distance in meters is not a distance in centimeters, dividing meters by seconds gave you a value in m / s (aka m * s^-1). YAIOUOM was an example of a refinement…
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CSS adds vertical centering in 2024
CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024
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Industrious Dice
I’m a professional mathematician. That means somebody pays me to do math. I’m also a recreational mathematician. That means you might have to pay me to get me to stop. Wearing my recreational mathe…
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Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities
Brewer’s CAP theorem, and Gilbert and Lynch’s formalization of it , is the first introduction to hard trade-offs for many distributed systems engineers. Going by the vast amounts of ink and bile spent on the topic, it is not unreasonable for new folks to conclude that it’s an important, foundational, idea.
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Good, Kind, Caring People Became the Bad Guys
Xoilac tv là kênh xem bóng đá trực tiếp 24/7 phát sóng trực tiếp bóng đá hơn 20 giải đấu. Chất lượng hình ảnh HD 4K, tốc độ ổn định, xem ttbd trên mọi thiết bị.
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All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
Welcome to the 2030s.
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Decade of the Battery
A repost with some updates.
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My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
Yesterday, I had a coronectomy: the top halves of my bottom wisdom teeth were surgically removed. It was my first time being sedated, and I didn’t know what to expect. While I was unconscious…
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Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud
Link fraud is increasingly undermining trust in major online platforms, including Google, Bing, and X (Twitter).
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A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)
Narrow waists: an idea in software architecture that relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.
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