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The way this story starts is pretty interesting: one day in the lunch room in building 25 I happened to have a chat with the great Anders Hejlsberg about compilers (yeah, it was pretty cool). One thing he mentioned (in passing…

I wrote this talk for a friend's "Psychology of Programming" class, but it should be accessible to mainstream audiences. It covers "esoteric programming languages" (esolangs), their history, and why I find them so interesting.


There's also a companion article…

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Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing…

So with all the talk about optimization happening on Twitter, some people who saw me give this talk at a private conference asked for me to do a public version.

If you want to play with the code yourself, a more complete version of the monster example is…

Summary: In this session we will discuss how software developers can use a single language Object Pascal to create applications for machines ranging from SBCs to mobile devices, desktop operating systems, browsers and servers. This can be reached via native…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer @KevlinHenney

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QCon San Francisco, the international software conference, returns November 17-21, 2025. Join senior software practitioners from early adopter companies as they share real-world insights and actionable advice to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.…

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There is One True Representation for signed integers, and that representation is two’s complement. There are…

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The NATO phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic…

This video provides an introduction to text encoding on computers, and outlines the history that led to the creation of the Unicode standard, and eventually, the famous UTF-8 text encoding.

"The History of UTF-8, as told by Rob Pike"
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One photo is a snapshot. A lifetime of photos is an exhibition.

Maybe the same is true of breaking databases? One broken database is a bug. A hundred broken databases…

Kyle Kingsbury, the author of Jepsen, has broken so many databases, he’s turned it…

"#losttechnology #comparison #gaming

Comparing NEW games (2020 - Present, essentially 9th generation) to OLD games (1996 to 2018) with focus on disappearing or forgotten "technology." Technology encompasses the tools, trick and techniques used to create…

Dennis Gustafsson's talk at BSC 2025 about parallelizing the physics solver in for an upcoming game.

Dennis' links:
- https://voxagon.se/
- https://x.com/voxagonlabs/
- https://teardowngame.com/

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com/
- http…

Some people think the days of critical HTTP request smuggling attacks on hardened targets have passed. Unfortunately, this is an illusion propped up by wafer-thin mitigations that collapse as soon as you apply a little creativity.

In this session, I'll introduce…

About Dmitry Vyukov
Dmitry is a Principal Software Engineer at Google. He works on dynamic analysis tools for C/C++ (like Address/Memory/ThreadSanitizer), similar tools for the Linux kernel, and fuzzing. He's the author of several notable projects, including…

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.…

Sorry about the voice audio quality. It gets resolved in the next video.

Part One of a video series echoing the themes of 'Liber Indigo: The Affordances of Magic'
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http://www.ted.com Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at…

What is scale? We often talk about throughput and latency, or adding machines, and yet systems still fail at scale. Scale isn't just performance and distribution, scale is survivability. Because the hardest part of scale isn't how much work you can do when…

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If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented…