“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”(vidarholen.net)

382 points by r4um 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post on Vidar's Blog explaining that "programming" in "dynamic programming" refers to mathematical planning/optimization rather than computer programming.

Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark(lemire.me)

146 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 86 comments

Web server 'hello world' benchmark: Go vs. Node.js vs. Nim vs. Bun(lemire.me)

30 points by msndr 3 years ago | 47 comments

Parsing 8-bit integers quickly(lemire.me)

85 points by usdogu 2 years ago | 40 comments

Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512(lemire.me)

156 points by usdogu 3 years ago | 30 comments

Git: Programmatic Staging(choly.ca)

14 points by icholy 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

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.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.