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I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family…

Compare GitHub Flow, Trunk-Based Development, and Git Flow side by side in a live simulation.

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Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build a programming language. Eight years later, Zig powers Ghostty, TigerBeetle and Uber's cross-compilation. It's top 5 most admired on Stack Overflow. There's just one thing missing: 1.0. Andrew Kelley explains why.…

In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5 kilobytes per second. It worked. Let’s follow a single…

Representing fold (sequential accumulation) as map composed with a reduce over a monoid, non-trivially and efficiently. This is a bedrock of parallel programming: however, although the general principle is known, applying it to concrete problems requires…

Deep technical analysis of MicrosoftSystem64, an 81 MB Node.js SEA binary deployed via malicious npm packages. This RAT steals browser credentials, 80+ crypto…

Posted by fpcoder - 102 votes and 11 comments

Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …

On the “haskellquestions” subreddit, a user recently asked for some help with monads in Haskell. In their post, they wrote (slightly paraphrased):

The Only Programming Language Built on Mathematics, Not Fashion

Learn how servers actually work by building a tiny TCP server and client from scratch. A hands-on introduction to sockets, TCP, and the network programming model every backend, DevOps, and platform engineer should go through at least once.

Every time a software estimate is inflated to absorb uncertainty and daily overhead, it stops measuring actual time and turns into a messy abstraction. Once your "hours" and "days" become a proxy for effort rather than the clock, you are already using Story…

The underappreciated gem of /proc/<pid>/mem

The attacker compromised the @redhat-cloud-services GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publisher to ship patch-client@4.0.4 with a Mini Shai-Hulud worm. The same…

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I reverse-engineered the Pizza Tycoon win condition from the original executable, and found a bug. Or a marketing ploy?

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