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By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.

In 2018, I wanted to describe how the components of databases, distributed or not, were being commoditized as individual parts that anyone could recombine into use-case specific engines. Given your own constraints, you can leverage those components to build…

I talk with Andrew Kelley and Ginger Bill about the position of classical languages in the textual programming paradigm.We talk about what makes a programming system suited to the native computing layer, interfaces for constructing software, visual programming…

Is another programming revolution possible?

A post/question about formal grammars, wherein I search for a good formalism for describing infix
expressions.

One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked.
Convert external sources to motivation…

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Let me tell you why you should (nearly) never use PEG (parsing expression grammars). Nearly everything I will say applies to parser combi...