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Apr 18, 2019
Nifty demonstration of live coding a grammar with Pharo, and exploring the different possible parse trees for an inputs (e.g. if you change associativity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFifte3YFUo
Apr 18, 2019
Fabulous debugging story from Uber. Factoring out a helper function caused a golang stack resize, dramatically affecting prod!
Optimizing M3: How Uber Halved Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by (Briefly) Forking the Go Compiler | Uber Blog
Apr 17, 2019
Effective theory and practice for networking in tech: https://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/
Apr 17, 2019
An interesting comment from the Coverity paper: randomisation is a very powerful technique for checkers that would require exponential work. Unfortunately it increases the likelihood of churn.
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Apr 15, 2019
Latest Stack Overflow survey has data on loved/dreaded languages, frameworks and DBs, and even coding music preferences!
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.
Apr 15, 2019
UI should match users' expectations rather than always being consistent with the rest of the world:
Just a moment...
Apr 14, 2019
On enabling children to use Internet services in a meaningful way, and a discussion of the benefits:
Optimize Algorithms to Support Kids Online, Not Exploit Them
Optimize Algorithms to Support Kids Online, Not Exploit Them
Young people benefit from their online interactions. Locking them out of the internet isn’t the answer to commercial bad actors.
Apr 14, 2019
Changing a project's hosting to GitLab is a major undertaking. When KDE and GHC migrated, they had a tracking issue to list all the painpoints they had! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53206 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55039 A great way to collaborate and for the GL maintainers to see what users need.
KDE migration to GitLab (#53206) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab
Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) migration to GitLab (#55039) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab
Apr 14, 2019
One of the earliest definitions of 'yak shaving' includes Emacs in its examples!
Yak Shaving
Apr 13, 2019
Emacs 26.2 is out!
Emacs 26.2 released
Apr 13, 2019
Google prefers to index newer pages: https://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/ Perhaps people want newer results more often? The article suggests there's probably a limit how much can be indexed for immediate retrieval.
Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web
XML pioneer and early blogger Tim Bray says that Google maybe suffers of deliberate memory loss. I may have found more evidence that this is the case.
Apr 11, 2019
Rust 1.34, including a subtle issue with a function that should have been unsafe, and a slew of new numeric types!
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Apr 11, 2019
A quantitative defence of free/libre software:
Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, open source software / free software is equal to or superior to their proprietary competition. The paper examines market share, reliability, performance, scalability, scaleability, security, and total cost of ownership; it also comments on non-quantitative issues and unnecessary fears.
Apr 10, 2019
"everyone who thrives at coding is able to deal with mind-bending levels of frustration[...] It's not going to get any better, because the better you get, the harder [it] will be. But the pleasure that comes when you finally get things working is [huge]"
Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
Ars chats with tech journalist Clive Thompson about his new book, Coders.
Apr 10, 2019
Chrome proposing blocking the download of executable files over HTTP from HTTPS web pages:
Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads from Emily Stark on 2019-04-09 (public-webappsec@w3.org from April 2019)
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