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Last week I gave a talk about tiny code for Nerd Nite in Austin Texas! This is a more refined version of my previous talk and a great introduction to creative coding and recreational programming. I hope you are inspired … Continue reading →

Niki has some great thoughts on the future of visual programming. I consider that maybe the IF community are already getting ahead of the curve.

Object-oriented programming on Common Lisp: A programmer's guide to CLOS Sonja Keene. Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer’s Guide to CLOS. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-17589-4. 1989. The definitive practical guide to using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). It's written from a ...

Apple’s illustrious original programming may face tighter budgets. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is known to spend billions of dollars on its Hollywood projects, but that could be set to change following production losses across the wider streaming industry. According to Bloomberg,...

If you want to get better at something, often times the path is pretty clear. If you get better at swimming, you go to the pool and practice your strokes and put in time doing the laps. If you want to get better at mountain biking, hit the trails and work on drills focusing on different aspects of r...

Nature, Published online: 22 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02386-6 Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to help scientists to query their data without the need for programming skills.

When I first became interested in functional programming, a more experienced engineer told me: “you know functional programming doesn’t really amount to much more than procedural programming.” As I insisted on the benefits of map, filter and reduce, he simply shook his head. “You’re thinking in the ...

Dear Vavr Community, it is with a mix of nostalgia and excitement that I write to you today. After years of developing and maintaining Vavr, our beloved functional programming library for Java, I have made the significant decision to transfer the ownership of the project to a new maintainer.

After having dithering-fun making dither it and pico cam I made a little game, currently called “puzzle dungeon,” which I admit isn’t a very good name at all. Puzzle dungeon is part logo, part dungeon crawling rogue-like and it doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with dithering. Otherwise on thin...

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

Python static analysis, also known as "linting", is a crucial aspect of software development. It involves inspecting your Python code without running it to identify potential bugs, programming errors, stylistic issues, or non-adhering patterns to predefined coding standards. It also helps identify v...

I probably hate writing code in your favorite programming language, whatever it may be. This is because I get frustrated by basically all of the top 10 languages you'll find listed anywhere for various reasons. Do I hate programming in Python? You bet I do. "But it's Python! Python is the best progr...

While infrastructure configuration management tools have been around since the 1970s, the rise in popularity of DevOps and cloud computing brought a new perspective to how we can all provision and maintain infrastructure using our favorite programming language. In this post I will disclose how I bui...

With this cancellation, Syfy's original programming is thin on the ground. The post SYFY’s <i>Reginald the Vampire</i> Won’t Sink Its Teeth Into a Third Season appeared first on Reactor.

Software engineers often gravitate towards projects with minimal non-software components and minimal direct interaction with the real world. This tendency, akin to searching for lost keys under a streetlight, stems from their desire to avoid real-world bottlenecks and business risks that can leave t...

Catfish Entropy Arbitrage Indie Web Adjacency Tables of Contents Direct Linking Entropy Arbitrage…but the Posts, Now The Light’s Edge Fictopedia Archive Next Today Koreans (often?) observe the birthday of Deposed Queen Yun, whose murder caused turmoil that included the first literati purges. And yes...

Seven notes on what's keeping me busy this week. One for each day. Being a developer means you need to handle errors well. Programming languages constantly communicate your mistakes back to you. There are no mitigating circumstances. Those unforgiving red lines of text are direct and right in your f...

The Death of the Junior Developer Steve Yegge's speculative take on the impact LLM-assisted coding could have on software careers. Steve works on Cody, an AI programming assistant, so he's hardly an unbiased source of information. Nevertheless, his collection of anecdotes here matches what I've been...

. "We, the undersigned, have made the decision to withdraw our books from consideration for the 2024 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and to refuse participation in all programming or promotions associated with the Giller Foundation." Read the full letter here. Instagram post here. You can also read about i...

Today, we will once again touch on a topic related to the careers of "the giants" of our industry.

Turner Classic Movie has released its schedule for the 2024 edition of Summer Under the Stars. For those who are unfamiliar with TCM Summer Under the Stars, it is a programming block takes place every August on TCM in which each day is devoted to a classic star. Many fans look forward to Summer Unde...

(Note: Apologies to anybody who waits for these posts in real time, but I had trouble publishing…)

Let over Lambda Doug Hoyte. Let over Lambda. HCSW and Hoytech. ISBN 978-1-4357-1275-1. 2008. A gloriously opinionated (in the best way) take on Lisp macro programming. The author treats Lisp – one of the first languages – as the ultimate, final language to which all others can (and should) be transl...

On Lisp Paul Graham. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-030552-9. 1993. An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader. One of the most famous advanced treatments of Lisp. Essentially it's a book in two parts. The first deals with the traditional advanced top...

The Inside Java Newsletter for June 2024 highlights a comprehensive series on data-oriented programming, some community events and awards, and a profile of the Oracle Java Quality and Infrastructure team in India. Explore the archives, send to a friend, and subscribe!

Bob wrote and posted this article a couple years ago. I think it’s still worth reading, so I’m posting it again here. Bob’s article covers much of the material in our Bayesian Workflow article and our Bayesian Workflow book in … Continue reading →

Arc Institute scientists have discovered the bridge recombinase mechanism, a revolutionary tool that enables fully programmable DNA rearrangements. Their finding, detailed in a recent Nature...

It's a holiday in the US today, where we celebrate with a lot of explosive-induced accidents and emergencies. Instead of holding a cherry bomb until it's too late, let's instead look at some explosively parallel code. Original. --Remy Parallel programming is hard. For all the advancements and tweaks...

"If only Rust had this feature, we would use it for all our greenfield projects!" Said nobody. Rust adoption is stagnating not because it's missing some weird feature pushed by programming language theory fanatics, but because of a lack of focus on solving the practical problems that developers are ...

To test-first or not to test, that is the question. ―William Shakespeare Intro Test Driven Development, or TDD, came up as part of Extreme Programming (XP) around the year 2000. The idea behind TDD is simple: first, you write a test. Then, you write the code to make that test pass. This process is s...

When presented with a difficult task, I ask myself: “what if I didn’t do this at all?”. Most of the time, this is a stupid question, and I have to do the thing. But ~5% of the time, I realize that I can completely skip some work. — Evan Hahn

I often reach for American holidays, because I find them close at hand as a New Yorker, but only a few hundred miles from here, Canada celebrates the founding of the Canadian Federation as Canada Day.

Senyawa Vajranala Indonesian duo find new kinds of heaviness Vajranala by Senyawa Over the past two months, I have attended two festivals whose starting point is metal music: Roadburn in Tilburg and Mystic Festival in Gdańsk. Although they differ in their approach to programming, what I found most i...

The Java Programming Language is evolving fast! Watch this video for a whirlwind tour of recent changes as well as a peek into the future. Discover the features you’ll be using when coding Java code next year and beyond!

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming. If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is:...

Let's be honest: HTTP servers are the new hello world of the 2020's. Nowadays, even your USB cables are connected to WiFi. While many programming language have integrated this reality and let developers run an HTTP server in a few lines of code, it can get pretty involved when trying

A review of data-oriented programming version 1.1: What caused the update and what is still left to be improved?

I wrote this post a week ago and have been thinking hard about whether I believe the premise, which is that within a few years, the norm for source code will be that it is written and modified by LLMs via prompting. For all practical purposes, all source code will be written this way, with exception...

CSS Meditation #2: Who gives a flying frick what constitutes a “programming” language.… originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

In the remnants of the Incan Empire, the (approximate) winter solstice—summer, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere—such as today, marks the new year and festival celebrating their Sun god, Inti Raymi. Today, a minority of Peruvians celebrate the festival as more of a historical artifact.

Almost exactly a year ago my wife and I took our second trip to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. We’d last visited 12 years earlier in October, and so had missed the opportunity to see puffins. I’d meant to make a series travelogue posts about my trip, but I got busy with programming, work, […]

For about three years, I had the opportunity to work in the most interesting setup I have ever encountered in my professional career. It may sound complicated to maintain at first, but trust me, it is not. The results speak for themselves. Pair Programming was the default in our development team, wi...

JEP 476 represents a significant step towards simplifying Java programming by reducing boilerplate code and improving readability. The post Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Simplifying Java with Module Import Declarations with JEP 476 appeared first on foojay.

The Java platform is nearly 30 years old, yet consistently maintains its position in the top three most popular programming languages. One of the key reasons for this is the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). By abstracting away concerns like memory management and compiling code as it is running, the JVM c...

While Rust and Go are both modern programming languages that have learned from the mistakes of the previous generation, they manage concurrency in a completely different way, which, as we will see, has a huge impact on performance and developer experience. But first, why do we need concurrency? Toda...

Every so often, I find a Python package that effectively solves a programming problem, or makes the experience of writing programs more delightful. Those tools become part of my repertoire of tools for writing new programs. For example, when I learned about tqdm, a status bar package, that became my...

One of the things that has sparked a lot of joy in my life in the last two years was building an app to keep track of "podcasts" I want to listen to. I'm using podcast in a very loose sense here, it's more

In this episode, the panel chats with Derrick Reimer, co-founder of SavvyCal. They discuss the advantages of using Elixir for bootstrapped SaaS businesses and how Elixir's functional programming paradigm aligns with modern development practices. Derrick shares his journey from Rails to Elixir and ex...