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Sep 6, 2016 at 23:04
Polyglot programmers are often very effective. They can take designs tested in one language and benefit another!

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Dec 31, 2025 at 08:29
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Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs. I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!
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Dec 12, 2023 at 00:55
What software designs require clean slate 'revolution' implementations, rather than evolution? I can think of: borrow checking in a PL (existing code is unsafe), microkernels (architecture is too different from monokernels), and full REPLs (can't add type redefinition later).
Sep 12, 2022 at 02:29
Neither Spotify nor Skype use peer to peer functionality any more. Are there any consumer apps that still leverage P2P designs? Has bandwidth just become so cheap that it's unnecessary?