Believe it or not, RAR files can contain bytecode for a simple x86-like virtual machine called the RarVM. This is designed to provide filter...

Reducing memory allocations from 7.5GB to 32KB

After five years working with Node.js, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and...

The semi-complete retelling of a debugging adventure involving sed, Windows, Haskell, and Stack. Come enjoy the ride!

Slice is a JavaScript library on npm that brings Python's extended slice syntax and negative indexing to JavaScript. This write-up explains in detail how Slice was built using ES6 Proxies, and serves as an interesting use-case of how you can use the Proxy…

A neural network from Google's DeepMind has impressive spatial reasoning skills.

If you’ve been on the internet today, you’ve probably interacted with a neural network. They’re a type of machine learning algorithm that’s used for everything from language translation to finance modeling. One of their specialties is image recognition. Several…

I’m really excited to announce the culmination of much of our work over the last four months: a pair of RFCs for supporting async & await notation in Rust. This will be very impactful for …

The Rockstar programming language specification. Contribute to dylanbeattie/rockstar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03160
More info: http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/
http://news.mit.edu/2018/ai-editing-music-videos-pixelplayer-csail-0705

Grain is a new programming language that puts academic language features to work.

If you're having trouble fixing *anything*, try one of these strategies.