#Programming

A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies.…

The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.

I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk to don't see anything like this.…

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Build a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in Rust, generate ARM64 machine code, and benchmark it against an interpreter and handwritten implementation.

One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or encompassing. This is the wrong question to ask. The right one is:

In 2022 while I was still teaching high school CS, I wrote a Python class called PaintBrush for my students to use. This took 20-30 minutes on a Sunday afternoon with my laptop and a cup of coffee.…

Flip through the personal homepages of programming language creators, ranked by their top PLDB language.

The Wyzer Programming Language. Contribute to Wyzer-Lang/wyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Forth is uncommonly used to teach programming to kids. Scripting languages like Python and visual environments like Scratch are far more popular options.…

In the age of AI-assisted coding, it’s easy to feel that deep knowledge of programming languages has become obsolete. Why spend years mastering language intricacies when an AI can generate code in any language on demand?…

Modula-3 History Collection Paul McJones, editor [email protected] https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/ Last updated 5 July 2026 Abstract This is an annotated collection of documents, source code, and other materials concerning the birth, development, and use

Imagine one day you wake up, you drink your morning glass of milk, brush your teeth, sit on your computer, stare your own diffuse image on the display, while reflecting on your own gingerness.…

Rhombus version 1.0 is now available! Install: https://rhombus-lang.org/download.html More information: https://rhombus-lang.org/ Why a new language? https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (copied below) Frequently Asked Questions: https...