Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker
{{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t perform that action at this time.
Objective-C is just, like, a leaky abstraction over C
Recently I came across this 10 year old post by Robert Atkins: Objective C is like Jimi Hendrix. It is about reconciling admiration for Objective-C by the “old-timers” with the newcomers’ somewhat less enthusiastic response. His very cogent insight was that Objective-C, like Jimi Hendrix, introduced new concepts that were somewhat revolutionary (“”mind blowing”) at […]
Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity
Microwaves, indispensable appliances that heat food in seconds, also harbor bacteria that can withstand some of the harshest conditions imaginable. Researchers from the University of Valencia in Spain have found that these everyday devices are home to a surprising diversity of bacteria in household and laboratory settings. Alba Iglesias, a microbiologist, and her team collected […]
Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career
I decided to leave what had been a promising career in organic chemistry about a year ago. Deciding to leave my program, and then to leave the field entirely, was one of the hardest decisions I have made. I had more resources than many in my position: savings and financial support, enough work experience to […]
Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive. Want a Proton beginner’s guide? Got you covered at this link. Heck, the Steam Deck never would have been a […]
I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
August 20, 2024 Discuss on Reddit I have recently done some performance work and realized that reading about my experience could be entertaining. Teaching to think is just as important as teaching to code, but this is seldom done; I think something I’ve done last month is a great opportunity to draw the curtain a […]
Designing My Own Watch (2020)
Timeless timepiece, both functional and comfortable Last month a very special package arrived from Switzerland, containing my custom made wrist watch. I decided to sell all my big brand watches and have them replaced by something unique, tailored to my personal preferences. This is the story of my watch. Watches There is something magical in […]
A 20-part deep dive into how linkers work
Posted Apr 7, 2008 6:28 UTC (Mon) by JesseW (subscriber, #41816) Parent article: Striking gold in binutils Since I couldn’t find any well-linked ToC of Ian’s 20-part essay on linkers either on his blog, or here, I decided to post one. (And yes, I know the post URLs are consecutive numbers; nevertheless…) I compiled the […]
SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring
SIMD in game development Often in game development we talk about SIMD. It is the holy grail of CPU performance, often out of reach. The conventional wisdom is that it is difficult to achieve real gains from SIMD. It is tempting to build a math library around SIMD hoping to get some performance gains. However, […]
Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
What we would today call cash assistance for the differently abled could in a different era permissibly have been called welfare for cripples. The terms welfare and crippled sound somewhere between loaded and abusive today, and yet once were considered civil by educated, sensitive people. There actually was an organisation called the International Society for […]