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Your CPU May be FASTER than You Think
YouTube video by DepthBuffer Your CPU May be FASTER than You Think

An introduction to parallel and throughput-optimized programming.
#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

youtu.be/WgTr79htuM4

20.06.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I Made a 32-bit Computer Inside Terraria
YouTube video by From Scratch I Made a 32-bit Computer Inside Terraria

Someone made a functional computer inside the game Terraria. The only question is, Can it run Doom?
#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY

20.06.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dependency Injection, The Best Pattern
YouTube video by CodeAesthetic Dependency Injection, The Best Pattern

Code Aesthetics visual explanation on Dependency injection.

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

youtu.be/J1f5b4vcxCQ

19.06.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Shamir Secret Sharing Itโ€™s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....

Hilarious story of Paypal implementing Shamir secret sharing.

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

max.levch.in/post/7242894...

19.06.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Less is exponentially more Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go...

The philosophy behind GoLang simplicity

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #GoLang

commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less...

17.06.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements - Stack Overflow

Building software is a lot more than writing code. Is AI up to the task?

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #AI

stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/29/t...

17.06.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
What Color is Your Function? โ€“ journal.stuffwithstuff.com

On the complexity of mixing sync and async logic.

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/w...

14.03.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
What Color is Your Function? โ€“ journal.stuffwithstuff.com

On the complexity of mixing sync and async logic.

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/w...

02.02.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud provides multiple advantages: flexibility, low time forโ€ฆ

Massive savings by running your own infrastructure.
#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
#cloud
tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-s...

02.02.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
</> htmx ~ When Should You Use Hypermedia? This essay by Carson Gross explores when to use hypermedia in web development, highlighting its advantages and trade-offs. Carson discusses scenarios where hypermedia is a good fit, such as text and i...

When to use #htmx ?
A simplified approach for web development.

htmx.org/essays/when-...

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment

30.01.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
</> htmx ~ When Should You Use Hypermedia? This essay by Carson Gross explores when to use hypermedia in web development, highlighting its advantages and trade-offs. Carson discusses scenarios where hypermedia is a good fit, such as text and i...

When to use #htmx ?
A simplified approach for web development.

htmx.org/essays/when-...

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment

30.01.2025 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LinkedList vs ArrayList

Theory vs Practice. How prioritizing compactness can give you performance improvements in most cases.

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

youtu.be/YQs6IC-vgmo

29.01.2025 23:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them fo...

The scale at which it makes more sense to take care of your infrastructure rather than relying on the cloud.

world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-...

25.01.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Functional Programming in Scala Functional Programming in Scala</i> is a serious tutorial for programmers looking to learn FP and apply it to the everyday business of coding. The book guides readers from basic techniques to advanced...

I finally decided to to a deep dive into #FunctionalProgramming

I think I'll start with this book, but the cover makes me feel like I'm reading the communist manifesto.

www.manning.com/books/functi...

25.01.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After some time off for the holidays, I'm, ready to continue sharing more awesome content around the programming community.

25.01.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Moon โ€“ Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article about the Moon

As always this articles are a great read!

Interactivity is key in order to understand complex subjects.

18.12.2024 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.

There's still so many uncovered edge cases in the software our civilization depends on.

www.wired.com/story/null-l...

11.12.2024 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Grug Brained Developer

Complexity very, very bad!

grugbrain.dev

10.12.2024 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? | Piotr Koล‚aczkowski In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, ...

Comparison of memory consumption running async tasks on several languages

pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consu...

10.12.2024 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024

I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

10.12.2024 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
YouTube video by Kevin Fang Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues

Be careful where you're typing. How GitLab's prod DB was accidentally wiped.

youtu.be/tLdRBsuvVKc

09.12.2024 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.

A showcase of over reliance on Serverless. Even if they are able to scale so does the cost and massively.

web.archive.org/web/20240719...

08.12.2024 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024

I just completed "Bridge Repair" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/7

08.12.2024 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Iโ€™ve been employed in tech for years, but Iโ€™ve almost never worked - Emmanuel Maggiori When Twitter fired half of its employees in 2022, and most tech giants followed suit, I wasnโ€™t surprised. In fact, I think little will change for those companies. After being employed in the tech sect...

Management's use of "agile" trying to create a predictable cadence for development is perhaps completely destroying productivity.

emaggiori.com/employed-in-...

07.12.2024 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024

I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6

This one felt like building a very basic simulation/videogame

06.12.2024 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
[2024 Day 5 (part 2)] Non-Transitivity, non-schmansitivity

I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024

This post perfectly illustrates my journey to find the solution.
www.reddit.com/r/adventofco...
#AdventOfCode

adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

06.12.2024 05:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Iโ€™ve been employed in tech for years, but Iโ€™ve almost never worked - Emmanuel Maggiori When Twitter fired half of its employees in 2022, and most tech giants followed suit, I wasnโ€™t surprised. In fact, I think little will change for those companies. After being employed in the tech sect...

Management's use of "agile" trying to create a predictable cadence for development is perhaps completely destroying productivity.

emaggiori.com/employed-in-...

05.12.2024 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust - Vercel How we're migrating from Go to Rust for better alignment with our tools and work

Migrating from Go to Rust, prioritizing up front correctness for greater reliability.

vercel.com/blog/turbore...

04.12.2024 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
When Zig is safer and faster than Rust There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.

Comparing #Zig vs #Rust.
is Zig a good alternative to writing unsafe Rust?

zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsa...

04.12.2024 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.

How does discord store trillions of messages. The story of scaling your DB and migrating from Cassandra to ScyllaDB.

discord.com/blog/how-dis...

04.12.2024 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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