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The intended audience for this article is undergrad students who already have a good grasp of Java, or seasoned Java developers who would like to explore an in-depth analysis of various hash table implementations that use Open Addressing. The reader ...
What is a typical day in the life like for a software engineer? To close out Season 6, we thought it’d be a great idea to give you some insight into our workdays, as we all have very different roles ...
Table of contents Contents Table of contents Code Introduction C++ (unordered_map) Java (HashMap) Python (dict) Performance: Why Size Doesn’t Matter Hash Functions Hash Collisions What makes a “Good” Hash Function? Families of Hashing Functions Division hashing Multiplicative hashing Hashing strings ...
APIs are part of our daily roles as software developers, but what are they? What different types are there? And how can you design a good one?
The definition of Agile is the ability to create and respond to change. Ultimately dealing with and succeeding in an uncertain or turbulent environment. I think we can all say with confidence that in the world of software development, being ...
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language. It’s a general-purpose programming language designed to let app developers: write once, run anywhere. Today we’re diving into the world of Java.
Whether you’re looking to start your own side business or create a lifelong career, the process of starting a new business can be overwhelming. This week on the podcast we’re discussing how to start your own business. We’ll dig deep ...
It’s easy to overlook documentation when building an application, but documentation can make or break a consumer’s experience. Today we’re diving into the world of documentation to discuss what it takes to write good documentation, the ethics of documentation, and ...
Trying out something new: today I’m launching my own Today I Learned section. In this essay I will sum up what my plans and hopes are.
It’s easy to overlook documentation when building an application, but documentation can make or break a consumer’s experience. Today we’re diving into the world of documentation to discuss what it takes to write good documentation, the ethics of documentation, and ...
TypeScript is an open-source programming language built on JavaScript that provides static type definitions. It has taken the front-end development community by storm over the past few years and today we’re going to give you a beginner-level rundown on the ...
What is it about sitting down building a good study plan that... kinda sucks? Is it the planning? The execution? The Time commitment? Are we committing to learn too much? Regardless of this answer, today we’re sitting down to talk ...
What is it about sitting down building a good study plan that... kinda sucks? Is it the planning? The execution? The Time commitment? Are we committing to learn too much? Regardless of this answer, today we’re sitting down to talk ...
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, ...
This post is less about teaching and more about schadenfreude amusement for you, and catharsis for me. It’s the story of how one unfortunate HTML tag kicked me off almost all search engines and my months-long way back. And why ...
Contents Introduction Working with an UCI-enabled engine from the command line Installing Stockfish (and Leela Zero) Listing supported options Changing an option Analyzing a position Writing the Java UCI Client library Opening and closing the engine process Sending commands to ...
Working around SwiftUI's CommandsBuilder limitations to conditionally show top-level menus on macOS using direct AppKit integration.
The widely used Python package cryptography changed their build system to use Rust for low-level code, which caused an emotional GitHub thread. Enthusiasts of 32-bit hardware from the 1990s aside, a vocal faction stipulated adherence to Semantic Versioning from the ...
How often do you test your site in iOS Safari? Do you even know how?!
Rendering optimizations that come naturally.
Lie and lay are infamously confusing to non-native speakers. It’s so bad that it sparked a cottage industry of click-baity articles full of sketchy ads. Since English is my third language, I stumbled a lot myself until I wrote this ...
mapneat is a library I’ve written a long time ago. I am biased. Introduction Following my previous article, I wanted to expand on the capabilities of the mapneat library. In this tutorial, I will show you how to transform an ...
Debugging and fixing a SwiftUI keyboardShortcut bug that fails when mixing SwiftUI with UIKit through reverse engineering and LLDB analysis.
mapneat is a library I’ve written a long time ago. I am biased. Introduction One of the most common challenges I’ve encountered in Software Engineering is data manipulation: taking a raw data structure, applying business logic, restructuring it, and finally ...
Implement finer control of your Git configuration.
Creating a SwiftUI button that supports both tap and long-press gestures by bridging to UIKit when SwiftUI's gesture system fails on Catalyst.
Contents Introduction Using QR Decomposition to Determine Eigenvalues Implementing the Naive Algorithm Improving the Algorithm: Practical QR with Shifts More Improvements: The Hessenberg Form But what about the Eigenvectors? References Introduction In my last two articles, I explored some fundamental ...
Contents Introduction Think of matrices as functions Matrix transformations Linear Transformations Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Why are they “special”? Why are they important? Where to go next Introduction There are rumors saying Computer Vision Engineers consider Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors the single ...
pysert (lowercase ‘p’) is a python utility designed to generate random SQL INSERT statements from predefined templates. While its primary focus is SQL, its template-driven nature allows it to generate almost any structured format, including JSON, XML, or YAML. If ...
Contents Disclaimer Math, math The Library Source Code The data: nml_matrix Breakdown of the Structure A Note on Memory Layout Allocating / De-allocating memory for the nml_mat matrix Implementation: nml_mat_new() Implementation: nml_mat_free() Expanding the API Creating a Random Matrix Generating ...
I make sourdough bread usually at least once a week and sometimes post pictures of the result to Twitter and get asked pretty frequently about my technique. There’s a lot written about sourdough bread on the Internet these days, and ...
The absolutely best way of making a starter if you don’t already have one is to not make one at all. If you can, ask someone who already has one for a bit of theirs. Most people will be happy ...
Documenting the challenges and solutions for integrating Apple Silicon M1 Mac minis into a continuous integration system, including automation fixes and performance comparisons.
I recently* built this really cool feature for my personal website that allows me to use Netlify Functions to show my most-recently-listened-to tracks from Spotify. *It wasn’t recently, it was in July 2020, please don’t look behind the curtain. It’s ...
This morning, the atomic design GOAT Brad Frost Tweeted a question about variable naming for colors: Here’s a fun one: what variable name would you define for `rgba(0,0,0,0.9);`? I drafted up a Tweet to answer this, but it ended up ...
