Posted in r/programming by u/VeryMonjHonj • 107 points and 16 comments

How we made bracket pair colorization in Visual Studio Code up to 10,000 times faster.

How a mysterious stall in database queries uncovered a performance limitation with PostgreSQL.

Posted in r/programming by u/genericlemon24 • 126 points and 15 comments

My perspective when a team member gives their notice

Software is new to the planet, and given that it took 100 years to build competent management techniques for manufacturing, it is no wonder that managers today are looked upon so poorly by developers.

Learn the basics of Awk, a powerful text processing tool, in this informative article. Discover how to use Awk to manipulate and analyze data, calc...

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html), the latest version of the world’s [most advanced …

Posted in r/programming by u/Nexus2011t • 158 points and 63 comments

Hey Everyone! I'm Shantnu, and I'm a 1x Programmer. I've been programming in Python for 10+ years, and yet I still forget how to use basic things like dictionaries and have to Google for itEvery time I open a file in Python, I have to Google what the parameters…

I added #Pokemon Red to my GitHub profile!

The new study confirms what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls the hybrid work paradox.

0:00 Introduction
0:53 Chapter1: Compiler Optimization
1:50 Chapter2: Math Functions
2:58 Chapter3: Shadows
3:53 Chapter4: The Instruction Cache
4:50 Chapter5: Animated Bones
5:31 Chapter6: The RDRAM
6:19 Conclusion
7:01 Bonus: Insane Man Rambling On About…

As a web developer this is one of the happiest announcements in a while: Google Search ended support for IE11 in its main product 🎉 (you can still search but will get a fallback experience). I'm mostly posting this so you can send it to your boss 😛. We did…

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here.
I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking…

This simulation is essentially the same code as we used in the previous video. But this time, we show every time step and simulate 1 Million ants at once. This, of course, takes a lot of time. The simulation produced 31141 frames, which took a total of 94165s…

My rationale for these changes are documented on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JakeHerrington/status/1443286841533374469

The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to...