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How to write self-documenting code. Best practices, tips, and tricks to write code that doesn't require documentation.

LispWorks is a Common Lisp implementation that comes with its own Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and its share of unique features, such as the CAPI GUI toolkit. It is proprietary and provides a free limited version.Here, we will mainly explore its IDE, asking ourselves what it can offer to a seasoned lisper used to Emacs and Slime. The short answer is: more graphical tools, such as an easy to use graphical stepper, a tracer, a code coverage browser or again a class browser.

An algorithm is a straightforward rule of action to solve a problem or a class of problems. Algorithms consist of a finite number of…

Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted Backend-as-a-Service that aims to make app development easier with SDKs available in a variety of…

There's a well-known quote by author Michael Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I like it because it doesn't attempt to be dogmatic: it encapsulates some basic guiding principles that get you 90% of the way there 90% of the time. Wikipedia describes the book the quote is from (emphasis mine):

For many years, the GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain has provided an open-source toolchain targeting embedded systems. The LLVM Embedded Toolchain for Arm is a new open-source project with the goal of pr…

JSON has its place. But I think we're overusing it in places where a good notation would serve us better.

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data serialization language. Its syntax is simple and human-readable. It does not contain quotation marks, opening and closing tags, or braces. It does not contain anything which might make it harder for humans to parse nesting rules. You can scan your YAML document and immediately know what's going on. [OS_EMBEDDED_MENU_RIGHT:] YAML features YAML has some super features which make it superior to other serialization formats:

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awk is a powerful tool. It is actually a Turing-complete language, meaning that you can technically write any kind of program with it.

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In part 5 of this series, we started to scale the application from a local one to a clustered one by introducing Cluster Sharding. In this article, we will continue our effort ...

When I decided the next post in my series on Python's syntactic sugar would be on async for, I figured it would be straightforward. I have already done `for` loops, so I have something to build off of. The language reference also specifies the pseudo-code for async for, so I

I’ve been involved with the development of the pipe operator (|>) in JavaScript for 4 years, going all the way back to 2017 when it was just a humble pipeline that did basic function application. Over the course of the discussion, the proposal evolved into two competing syntaxes, F# & Smart-Mix, exploring different ways of […]

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I believe acss.io is the first usage of "Atomic CSS" where the point of it is to be a compiler. You write CSS like this:

Readability, understandability, two key incredients of great code. Easier said than done, right? What one person finds easy to read and unde...

It is common in data engineering to find that we have too much data. Thus engineers commonly seek compression routines. At the same time, random identifiers are handy. Maybe you have many users or transactions and you want to assign each one of them a unique identifier. It is not uncommon for people to use … Continue reading Random identifiers are poorly compressible

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A Merkle-DAG is a DAG where each node has an identifier and this is the result of hashing the node’s contents — any opaque payload carried by the node and the list of identifiers of its children — using a cryptographic hash function like SHA256.

Context Data center networks every so often use compactly interconnected topologies to deliver high bandwidth for internal data exchange. In such network, it is precarious to employ effective load balancing schemes so that all the available bandwidth resources can be utilized. In order to utilize a

Windows Azure Cache (WA Cache) is an distributed in-memory cache. WA Cache provides a simple based API. Like, Cache.Put (key, value), Cache.Get (key). You can correlate WA Cache …

Consistent Hashing is a distributed hashing scheme that operates independently of the number of servers or objects in a distributed hash table.

Administrivia This article was initially posted on Wikipedia in 2008, which explains why it's written at the 3rd person and looks familiar...

As web apps grow in scope and complexity, so do the demands on frontend developers. Devs need logs to access vital information.

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