Fixing issues once and for all in Emacs or Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19410356
miniblog.
Great introduction to neural nets, comparing them to analogue computers:
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
Fabulous debugging story from Uber. Factoring out a helper function caused a golang stack resize, dramatically affecting prod!
Effective theory and practice for networking in tech: https://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/
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.
Latest Stack Overflow survey has data on loved/dreaded languages, frameworks and DBs, and even coding music preferences!
UI should match users' expectations rather than always being consistent with the rest of the world:
On enabling children to use Internet services in a meaningful way, and a discussion of the benefits:
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.
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.
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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