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Hackernoon
Why Flutter Uses Dart
<span>M</span>any linguists believe that the natural language a person speaks <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity" target="_blank">affects how they think</a>. Does the same concept apply to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
Disenchantment with the state of software
http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
tonsky.me
Software disenchantment
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
The story of a great fun old-time game programming hack
http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html
http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html
GPU text rendering using vectors, with great performance
https://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textures/
https://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textures/
Things nobody told me about being a software engineer:
https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
An exploration of the ways naive randomness can be misleading, and how to do it right
https://medium.com/@oldwestaction/randomness-is-hard-e085decbcbb2
https://medium.com/@oldwestaction/randomness-is-hard-e085decbcbb2
Medium
Randomness is hard: learning about the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm & random number generation
This post & its related materials were prepared for a July 26, 2018 lightning talk event co-hosted by Enigma and Women Who Code NYC!
XORcism: A clean, modern tool to crack "rotating xor" ciphers, with a very descriptive README
https://github.com/BenH11235/XORcism
https://github.com/BenH11235/XORcism
GitHub
GitHub - BenH11235/XORcism: Command-line tool that breaks rotating-xor (and similar) ciphertexts
Command-line tool that breaks rotating-xor (and similar) ciphertexts - BenH11235/XORcism
The Graphing Calculator Story
From the time of the original Macintosh, a skunkworks project like no other.
https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
From the time of the original Macintosh, a skunkworks project like no other.
https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Powered by WebAssembly and emscripten.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/
Powered by WebAssembly and emscripten.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser. We think it’s worthwhile to work on moving the ...
The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card (or, Why is 80 chars the default max line length?)
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny
pub.gajendra.net
The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card
Wherein the author discusses (another) accident of history.
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (talk transcript)
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
Open Transcripts
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish | Open Transcripts
It's easy to interpret any criticism of the hacker ethic—which is what I'm about to do—as a kind of assault.