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A free operating systems book.

On the surface, Pony may seem like another strongly-typed object-oriented programming language with a touch of functional programming on the side. But the most powerful part of Pony's design is the way that it uses actors and reference capabilities to guarantee that programs are free of data races. ...

There was a [comment](https://lobste.rs/s/xpab69/text_editor_data_structures#c_ckdduw) on a recent story that talked about piece tables as a data structure for text editors. This archived thread talks about how it shaped early versions of Word.

I am currently working in a challenging javascript codebase, desperately in need of refactoring and tidying up. There's a lot of convoluted logic and repetition that I'd like to eliminate, but there are no tests to help me not break things. The original developer no longer works on the project. This...