Raku: A language for gremlins(buttondown.email)

355 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 180 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post describing the Raku programming language as a quirky language 'by gremlins, for gremlins'.

Access Control Syntax(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

26 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 14 comments

Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil(jonasdevlieghere.com)

21 points by JDevlieghere 4 months ago | 6 comments

What makes Lisp difficult to read?(paultm.nl)

20 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 24 comments

Blog post exploring why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as hard to read and what that implies for designing syntax in new languages.

Rust Is Eating JavaScript(leerob.com)

74 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 year ago | 101 comments

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Llama: Add grammar-based sampling(github.com)

379 points by davepeck 3 years ago | 95 comments

A GitHub pull request to llama.cpp adding an API for grammar-based sampling that constrains LLM output with a BNF-like context-free grammar.

Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax(difftastic.wilfred.me.uk)

1076 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 179 comments

Homepage for Difftastic, a command-line diff tool that compares files by their syntax rather than line-by-line.

Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search(bitmagnet.io)

439 points by KoftaBob 3 years ago | 99 comments

Documentation homepage for bitmagnet, a self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI and GraphQL API.

My favourite Git commit (2019)(dhwthompson.com)

628 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 359 comments

A 2019 blog post by David Thompson showcasing a detailed GOV.UK Git commit message as an example of how commit messages document a codebase.

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers(samcollins.blog)

358 points by samcollins 5 months ago | 126 comments

Blog post describing an "underdrawing" technique for getting accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images using Gemini 3.0 Pro.

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option(github.com)

541 points by ahlCVA 4 days ago | 141 comments

GitHub commit to mitmproxy adding an --emudhra option that signs TLS certificates using a compromised eMudhra intermediate CA private key.