The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth-Century England Ian Keable Westbourne Press, pp. 305, £20 The word ‘hoax’ did not catch on till the early 19th century. Before that one spoke of a hum, a frump, … Read more
Cl-cuda is a library to use NVIDIA CUDA in Common Lisp programs. It provides not only FFI binding to CUDA driver API but the kernel description language with which users can define CUDA kernel functions in S-expression. The kernel description … Read more
Common Lisp Recipes is a book every Common Lisper should keep within arm’s reach. Common Lisp Recipes is a collection of solutions to problems and answers to questions you are likely to encounter when writing real-world applications in Common Lisp. … Read more
A Git repository is a collection of files and information regarding past changes made in them. While working with Git, you may encounter errors that seem confusing, especially if you are a beginner and the terms used are not familiar … Read more
After helping build out a few startup’s analytics stacks, one starts to see some patterns. Sometimes these patterns are happy ones. Just about everyone loves the moment when you go from having no idea what’s going on, to having a … Read more
In Linux 5.13 ethtool gains an interface for querying IEEE and IETF statistics. This removes the need to parse vendor specific strings in ethtool -S. Status quo Linux has two sources of NIC statistics, the common interface stats (which show … Read more
farolero masc. n. Historical Spanish, meaning “lamplighter”, e.g. “A lamplighter claimed to have seen Jack the Ripper on this street last night.” Error handling in Clojure is not yet a solved problem. Each method of handling errors commonly used comes … Read more
Access to data is a good thing, right? Please donate today, so we can continue to provide you and others like you with this priceless resource. DONATE NOW Don’t forget, Common Crawl is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit so your donation … Read more
Starting in a new role as a fresh engineering manager is not easy. Suddenly you need very different skills, feedback loops seem insanely long and the sense of accomplishment and success starts fading as a result. Earlier I wrote about … Read more