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Stories by freetonik

A Broken Heart (allenpike.com)
The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head (lapcatsoftware.com)
Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…" (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
Utilizing highly synchronized clocks in distributed databases (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc. static site generator had RSS (rakhim.exotext.com)
Problem Driven Development (staysaasy.com)
Castlemacs: modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS (github.com)
Interface is evil (artgorbunov.ru)
Advanced Self-Aware ed(1) (aartaka.me)
The rule of least client-side complexity (rubenerd.com)
Full-stack quantum computing, from hardware to compilers and algorithms (youtube.com)
I gave this talk at PyCon Estonia recently, and thought it may be interesting to someone here. It's an overview of what quantum computing is in principle, how a particular technology (superconducting QC) attempts to implement it, how the full stack looks like (from chip fabrication to high-level alg...
How Does C Code Become Assembly (xta0.me)
Filter, Map, Reduce explained in less than 2 minutes (youtube.com)
Hi all, I had this idea of explaining filter/map/reduce with fruits and graders for a while, and last week finally filmed it. The quality isn't that great, but I still wonder if this could be helpful to beginners. The idea is not to explain these things from scratch, but rather provide a mental i...
Repodig: determine maintainability and development pace of gh repos (repodig.com)
Hi all, Often I'm not sure if a particular open source project (especially a library I want to add as a dependency) is maintained well enough. So I created this small analyzer.
Yet another strange job scheduler bug (iafisher.com)
The Einstein AI model (why AI won't bring a "compressed 21st century") (thomwolf.io)
Real-time chess (youtube.com)
Ask HN: How is hiring done in other industries?
If you have experience working in industries unrelated to software engineering, could you describe how does the hiring process look like for regular and senior professionals?<p>I&#x27;m curious to know if endless rounds of interviews, take-home assignments, multi-month timelines, the need to prove y...
Show HN: I wrote a book about Clojure (leanpub.com)
Hey HN,<p>I wrote a short book about the fundamental aspects of Clojure. The target audience is programmers with at least minimal experience who want to learn how to express solutions in Clojure (and perhaps in LISP, generally).<p>If the price is a bit too steep for you, send me an email (address i...
What could a visual Clojure/LISP editor be like? (youtube.com)
It's not just you – the iOS keyboard is broken [video] (youtube.com)
Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com)
Most used words on Bluesky in real-time (bluesky100.rakhim.org)
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS (rakhim.exotext.com)
Eldiron: Retro RPG Creator (eldiron.com)
macOS Apps That I'm Using (switowski.com)
Rust library for building no-boilerplate CLI apps (github.com)
Seeking feedback on my somewhat unusual free "Intro to Programming" course (en.hexlet.io)
Hey! Last week I finished my hopefully unusual and different free course, and I'm looking for any feedback. The idea was to create a highly visual picture, explain important programming concepts using real world analogies without focusing on tools or language syntax, and produce something that wi...
Rails Hurts - Let's fix that! (railshurts.com)
Apple has a transparency issue [video] (youtube.com)