Your opinions on Bend (github.com)
New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What’s your opinions on it so far?
As a C beginner, should I be bothered by not being able to understand this? (queue.acm.org)
Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today’s time, apart from binary and assembly?
C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. (queue.acm.org)
Why We Can't Have Nice Software (andrewkelley.me)
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)
A Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code (blog.redplanetlabs.com)
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)
Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax (difftastic.wilfred.me.uk)
[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3758187...
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs (www.cgchannel.com)
Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 3, a new version of his open-source project that enables GPU-based applications designed for NVIDIA GPUs to run on other manufacturers’ hardware. The wrapper technology is designed to enable existing applications to run on new hardware unmodified, without the need for any work on their...
Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits (cbarrick.dev)
On repl-driven programming (mikelevins.github.io)
GNU Make - Unconditionally run a target before any other targets (www.bahmanm.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6856563...
Tracing: structured logging, but better in every way (andydote.co.uk)
TLDR; The author argues that free-form logging is quite useless/expensive to use. They also argue that structured logging is less effective than tracing b/c of mainly the difficulty of inferring timelines and causality....
Variables in GNU Make: Simple and Recursive (www.bahmanm.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4908824...
Here are 20 reasons why frameworks make us lousy programmers (chat-to.dev)
It is not accurate to claim that frameworks automatically make programmers bad. In fact, frameworks are powerful tools that can accelerate development, promote best practices, and facilitate code maintenance. However, it can be argued that overly relying on frameworks without understanding the underlying principles of...
Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care (materializedview.io)
Question - Could an embedded scripting interpreter at the same time be a language server? (ceesstuff.github.io)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1941692...
Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Jotai takes an atomic approach to global React state management (github.com)
Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) (blog.danieljanus.pl)
Conway's Game of Life using ffmpeg (trac.ffmpeg.org)
ffplay -f lavfi -i life=s=400x300:mold=10:r=30:ratio=0.1:death_color=#C83232:life_color=#00ff00,scale=1200:800:flags=32...
Come and see this website made for programmers (chat-to.dev)
Chat rooms and programming content
Using Make and cURL to measure Lemmy's performance (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4560181...
