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

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go(jacobin.org)

268 points by yla92 3 years ago | 162 comments

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk(akr.am)

103 points by thefilmore 1 year ago | 43 comments

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

The AGI Final Frontier: The CLJ-AGI Benchmark(raspasov.posthaven.com)

10 points by raspasov 1 year ago | 6 comments

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

We're Leaving Kubernetes(gitpod.io)

424 points by filiptronicek 2 years ago | 264 comments

Gitpod blog post explaining why the company is moving its cloud development environment platform away from Kubernetes.

Why is my CPU usage always 100%?(downtowndougbrown.com)

505 points by pncnmnp 1 year ago | 137 comments

Part 9 of a blog series on upgrading the Chumby 8's Linux kernel from 2.6.28 to 6.x, investigating why top always reports 100% CPU usage.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.

Try Clojure(tryclojure.org)

508 points by ducktective 2 years ago | 334 comments

Try Clojure is an in-browser interactive Clojure REPL with a guided beginner tutorial, built with ClojureScript.

The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing(computerwebsite.net)

596 points by arithmoquine 2 years ago | 56 comments

An illustrated explainer of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm for determining whether two convex shapes overlap.

Why Janet? (2023)(ianthehenry.com)

424 points by yacin 4 months ago | 231 comments

Ian Henry's 2023 blog post arguing why programmers should try Janet, a small Lisp dialect, and promoting his free book about it.