Chukwuemeka Nelson Nwauche
Article - https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
I came for the information on Lisp and stayed for the discussion on language design. Language design has always fascinated me because at one point or the other over the last few years I’ve used every major language either...
Article - https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
As a card carrying member of "Team Open Source", I'll readily admit that modern email is by far the best (and maybe the only) example of "walled gardens" being a net benefit to the internet.
This blog post is another...
Article - https://github.com/ohbarye/pbt
Having written thousands of unit tests, I can confidently say this has a lot of alpha.
With traditional unit tests, there will always be edge-cases that are not immediately (or vaguely) obvious and so won't be considered but with PBT that isn't a...
“A glance at Thorpe’s activities as an editor and translator (a full overview is provided below) shows an admirable range: from poems to law texts, psalms, chronicles and homilies. Thorpe also strikes as a humble man. His humility, as well as his intended purpose for most of his books, are made...
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You need to have working knowledge of the language(s) the software is written in and it's dev/deployment ecosystem. E.g. if you're dealing with a Python project,you should know what a requirements.txt file is.
You have no business dissecting a project if you can't even program in the...
Read more...“This post will be about some source-level techniques for speeding up C++ compilation, and their (dis)advantages. It will not talk about things external to C++, such as buying better hardware, using a better build system, or using smarter...
Read more...“Now, in a world where AI is replacing programmers by the minute, taking their jobs and revolutionizing the way we think about code, maybe we should be more open to the thoughts of the fresh new blood of the industry? In fact, the above code is a perfect example of a time-memory tradeoff. You’re...
Read more...“Major system issues that affect the reliability of our services are detected and mitigated quickly. However, there are several minor issues that take a longer time to detect and mitigate. Such minor issues can collectively result in poor user experiences and revenue loss over time. This is where...
Read more...“As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.”
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Read more...“Knuth used a technique of Ralph Gomory published the same year, which he somehow became aware of despite the absence of email, the web, Arxiv, or large language models.”
Article 1 - https://nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/don-knuths-mip-64-years-later/
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“So, you are probably that kind of developer. You know, the kind that just has to have “localhost” served up with SSL. Even though you know that you’re the CA, and you signed this SSL certificate yourself, and you tweaked your browser and API client settings to accept the certificate. But still,...
Read more...“A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. While there are many different reasons for the slow adoption, I think one of the biggest barriers are our own brains.”
“My preferred way of learning new techniques like that is by tinkering with stuff in...
Read more...“MBPC (Margin, Border, Padding, Content)”
Article - https://www.saturdayfrontend.com/p/css-makes-sense-understanding-this
A short article about HTML elements from the view of CSS. The author discusses the essential components (MPBC) to keep in mind when styling HTML elements which...
“The absence of a centralized, up-to-date repository for the specification complicates matters. While some clarifications and consensus have been reached within the generic-abi group, accessing the latest, definitive text remains a challenge.”
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Read more...“Looking at fundamentals, you build your mental model on the truth rather than on hypotheses constructed from evidence gathered while experimenting with the API. This truer model gives you a better understanding of what Git has done, what it is doing, and what it will do.”
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“One of the most common pieces of advice I hear about git is “just learn how the .git directory is structured and then you’ll understand everything!“. I love understanding the internals of things more than anyone, but there’s a LOT that “how the .git directory is structured” doesn’t...
Read more...“But the most influential innovation to come out of the brewery by far has nothing to do with beer. It was the birthplace of the t-test, one of the most important statistical techniques in all of science. When scientists declare their findings “statistically significant,” they very often use a...
Read more...“So what is density really about, then? It’s about providing the highest value outcomes in the smallest amount of time, space, pixels, and ink.”
Article - https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
I’ve never come across the term UI density but after reading this article, it’s something we...
Article - https://finalspark.com/articles/
When it comes to the current path were are on with AI, I think we are in a local minima and an AI winter may not be as far away as we think.
Why?
Because modern models consume too much energy during training.
I think the key to circumventing this issue...
Article - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent/
This was the article that I used to learn C along w/ K&R https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628
It should be required reading for every experienced newcomer to the language.
It gives you just...
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