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The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.

📚 A curated list of papers for Software Engineers. Contribute to facundoolano/software-papers development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1107+ languages! - DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

Learn when and why to use Python's 'raise ... from None' to simplify stacktraces by hiding redundant exception context. Improve debugging clarity by focusing on the actual issue.

Several weeks ago we received a bug report from a customer that said their game was crashing when using IL2CPP scripting backend. QA verified the bug and assigned it to me for fixing. The project was quite big (although far from the largest ones); it took…

A Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I am the maker/developer behind the open-source discord bot called Simplex. In this article, I thought I'd walk you through some of the decision

A blog by and for database architects.

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in … - Selection from 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know [Book]

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Over-abstraction is like wrapping a simple gift in so many layers that no one can open it — including you.

Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Recommended reading 1.4 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.5 Hugepages 1.6 A note on benchmarking 1.7 Cache lines 1.8 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization…

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Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.