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Breaking Down the Hype: Unpacking the Findings of the Recent ACL Conference Paper

C Is Great, Long Live C! Programming in Modern C with a Sneak Peek into C23 - Dawid Zalewski - ACCU 2023...

Recently, I was thinking about some topics for a short and knowledge-refreshing article. One subject...

OpenGL Tutorial for creating a Voxel 3D Engine like Minecraft using Python. Libraries and modules used: Pygame, ModernGL, Numpy, PyGLM, Numba, OpenSimplexCod...

Mastering the Art and Science of Bloom Filters

Over the years, I've seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics of this in function invocations is confusing. In my opinion, a lot of this confusion is cleared up by understanding the core function invocation primitive, and

It's hard to come up with good names in code, but its also easy to get wrong. By looking at some examples, we can get 80% of the way there. Access to code examples, discord, song names and more at https://www.patreon.com/codeaesthetic

I've been using emacs since 2010. I use doom emacs now, but I have written my own overcomplicated config at one point in the past. I've grown used to it, but sometimes when emacs chokes on some input due to its single threaded nature I have time to wonder if there's something better for me out there....

Rust Leadership Council established in the wake of community complaints of governance shortcomings and a fork of the language to escape bureacracy.

Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.

A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.

Suppose that I have two features in my C program, feature foo and feature bar. I wish to be able to switch what features will be compiled into my program at compile time. The only two ways I know of doing this are:...

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Hey there programmers, I know this is a more markup/typesetting deal, but I thought there might be people who are interested. After being dissapointed with many of the options out there for making ttrpg item cards, I made a LaTeX template for that exact purpose. I wanted it to be relatively easy to use, generate clean images,...

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We make micrograd fly with a little compiler magic.

Inside CPython's Clever Use of Bloom Filters for Efficient String Processing

Visual Studio Code for the Mac, once known as Mono Develop then Xamarin Studio, is being shut down by Microsoft. Visual Studio for Mac will continued to be supported with bug fixes and Apple platform updates for one more year.

Adding abstraction to your code always feels like the right thing to do. But when you add abstraction, you add coupling which can often undermine the value of the abstraction.

This is the full story of the vulnerability we have discovered within Visual Studio Code (VS Code) concerning the handling of secure token storage. While designed for isolated storage for each extension, this vulnerability presents a high-risk “Token Stealing” attack. A malicious extension could expose third-party...

Just because you can use null or undefined doesn’t mean you should. We talk about the problems that come up and how Optionals can help overcome them.

I got a flagship Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra), and while I have experimented with CodeEdit (a code editor for Android), I was thinking about using something more serious, even VSCode if possible somehow.

The chip ran Linux benchmarks at about i486 speeds.

In the event of a catastrophic outcome, who owns the failure -- the product maker, the library coder, or the company that chose the product? We look at the sticky issue of liability.