I needed something weird - to fork and modify TLS lib. During research I stumbled upon this nice site: comprehensive description of all the records for TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 client and server send to each other

#network #tls #protocol

I often see copyright year in source code or LICENSE files. I've always wondered, what's the rule for this thing? Should I keep it up-to-date? Can I omit it? Thankfully, the answer's found me all by itself. For code it doesn't really matter. You can safely omit it.

#oss #license #law

Yet another collection of ChatGPT prompts. There are some pearls in it for sure, but I don't quite get why so many prompts in different categories start with "Write a marketing campaign outline using..."

#ai #chat

Usually we don't need stuff like that, but it may be tedious to google it when we do. Awesome macOS Command Line: a bunch of useful commands and scripts to take more control of the system when it's needed.

#macos #terminal #tool

I believe these posts should be read by those who's being interviewed and by those who is interviewing:
- Tech questions
- Company culture questions
+ Also don't miss HN discussions

#job #interview

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome JEP 430: String Templates!
They've decided to bring something like string interpolation to Java, but to do it BETTER than everyone else.
The result is, well, quite surprising:
String s = STR."\{x} + \{y} = \{x + y}";

#java #language #jep

Check out this strangely nice thing. Have no idea why would I need it, but looks interesting!

#keyboard #hardware

I've decided to dedicate this whole week to this wonderful series in prose. Enjoy!

Reversing the technical interview

“That’s not a list,” the interviewer says. “That’s an if statement.”
“What else are lists,” you reply, your eyes flashing

#interview #humor #fp

Hexing the technical interview

“We’re, uh, we’re not doing IO here. Just an in-memory list.”
Agree politely, but delete nothing. Never apologize for who you are.

#interview #humor #fp

Typing the technical interview

“You’re… defining the natural numbers by hand? Why?”
“Haskell is for mathematicians,” you explain. “We always define our terms.”

#interview #humor #fp

Rewriting the Technical Interview

“People always complain,” you murmur. “That Lisps have too many parentheses. What they really mean is that their positions are too far to the left.”

#interview #humor #fp

Unifying the Technical Interview

“You absolute madwoman,” Aisha chortles. “You can’t remember how to balance a binary tree, but you memorized µKanren?”

#interview #humor #fp

And a little bonus à la fanfic.

Typescripting the technical interview

“Okay, that looks like a correct solution, but the code is quite hard to follow, and it’s not very concise.” he asserts, wrongly.
“Oh it’s mostly just TypeScript boilerplate. I think you’ll find once it’s compiled down to JavaScript it’s perfectly concise.” you reassure him.
Invoke the compiler

#interview #humor #fp

AI coding assistants. Why are they important? How did we get here? What are the problems in this area? There's a bit of ad in the end, but it's definitely not a usual marketing BS kind of post. A nice overview, so to speak.

#ai #ml #code

Very nice! ThumbHash - yet another algorithm to display a blurred image preview while the actual image is still loading. Code is already available for several languages.

#image #algorithm

New post from Bartosz Ciechanowski. This time about bicycle. It's a long-read, but totally worth your time. Those interactive animations are a big deal!

#bicycle

Buying fake Github stars is a thing. In this post they're trying to dig deeper into this market and to build a detection tool to catch such bots.

#github #bot

Check out this mind blowing tool! It visualizes project history using repo data. Repo is here.

#tool #git

Ode to the grid. Planck length, anyone?

#grid

How to write a simple mark & sweep GC in C.

#c #gc