I spend an awful lot of my day in Unix terminals running shell commands. For some reason, the variance in efficiency between different people when using the shell is huge: I know people who can run rings around me, and I’ve come across more than one paid professional who doesn’t use the “up” key to retrieve the…
I had a vague idea that closures could have a variety of performance implications; I did not believe that so many of the chosen and potential designs for C and C++ extensions ones, however, were so…
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A comprehensive solution for financial analysis that helps finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make decisions.
You should just do things
Software engineer by day, software engineer by night also.
This article contains a collection of resources for senior (or staff+) engineers exploring the use of LLM for collaborative programming.
Discover Imagen 4 Fast, Google's new speed-optimized text-to-image model, now generally available with Imagen 4 and 4 Ultra in the Gemini API.
Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.
The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab…
We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
use pre-push hooks instead
In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers [1] . That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking hour on this machine, staying up all night on weekends.
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.
An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.
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In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a…
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Ever had this weird gut feeling that something is off in your code, but couldn’t put the finger on why? Are you starting your projects with the best intentions, following all best practices, and still feel like your architecture turns weird eventually?
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects us all. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
Findings resolve “steppe hypothesis” enigma
A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence . I'm revisiting it this Sun Day , to share the design, now that I have prooved it out.
IRB you kidding me?
Earlier this week, I did the keynote at TLA+ conf 2024 ( watch the video or check out the slides ). My message in the keynote was something I have believed to be true for a long time: formal methods are an important part of good software engineering practice. If you’re a software engineer, especially one working on…
An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
A comprehensive overview of automotive lidar technology — what lidar measures, how it measures distance, and how it determines bearing.
In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd. , a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new findings show those…
Execute sandboxed Lua code on the BEAM VM using Luerl
