[🎥] Two Ways To Do Dynamic Dispatch

Rust and C++ both have built-in (but different-flavored) support for dynamic dispatch, and both also let you open the hood and implement it the other way tha…

[🎥] Introducing Rust into a Legacy Embedded System - Steven Walter

Discuss the what to do, what not to do, and the “we’re still not sure if this is a good idea” parts of using Rust in an existing code base that is both resou…

[🦀] Was async fn a mistake?

Was async fn a mistake? This stabilization PR for async fn in traits made me think: was async fn in Rust a mistake? I mean, I dunno. Maybe it wasn’t. But play along for a moment. By the way, I don’t…

Why async Rust? - Without boats, dreams dry up

Why you might actually want async in your project

There is a common sentiment I’ve seen over and over in the Rust community that I think is ignorant at best and harmful at worst.

[🎥] Adding Nested Loops Makes this Algorithm 120x FASTER?

In the last video, I introduced the concepts of compute-bounded and memory-bounded tasks. This video takes a step further and uses the theory we discussed to…

[⭐] Profiling with perf and DHAT on Rust code in Linux • Ryan James Spencer

the blog of Ryan James Spencer

[🎥] Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm

In this video we will take an in depth look at the fast inverse square root and see where the mysterious number 0x5f3759df comes from. This algorithm became…

[⭐] The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky

[🎥] Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever - William Brander - NDC London 2023

Microservices come with promises of scalability, reliability, and autonomy. But if everything is so rosy, how come the only success stories we hear about are…

[⭐🎥] Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2023

We’re not quite sure exactly when email was invented. Sometime around 1971. We do know exactly when spam was invented: May 3rd, 1978, when Gary Thuerk emaile…

[🎥] Failure is Always an Option - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022

Software runs the world. We use software to manage our calendars, talk to our friends, run our businesses - and, as our societies inevitably try to replace p…

[🎥] Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022

Software is complicated. Machine learning, microservice architectures, message queues... every few months there’s another revolutionary idea to consider, ano…

[⭐🎥] “Wouldn’t it be cool…” and other bad design approaches - Billy Hollis - NDC London 2023

Most app development teams are still learning how to do UX design and creative product development. In this session, we’ll see some examples of the mistakes…

Why LSP?

LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There’s a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:

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[🇫🇷🔊] On ne pourrait pas refaire VLC aujourd’hui. JB Kempf (VLC)

CTRL est un podcast de Burst qui explore les nouvelles menaces cyber et les solutions pour reprendre le contrôle sur la tech. Après une longue période d’émer…

Why You Should Learn To Program The Hard Way

Even if it takes more time, learning to program the hard way using as few libraries and external dependencies as possible will make you more confident.Resear…

[🎥] IETF Celebrates The Standards [LIVE at Demuxed ’22]

OMG!!! INSANE IETF ANNOUNCEMENT 2022!! we were invited to close out the Demuxed ’22 conference as special guest speakers // recorded live at Bespoke in San F…

On Custom-Width Integer Types

Custom-width integers are an interesting language feature. They open the door to several efficiency optimizations - both in hardware and software. In this post I’ll be making an argument in favor of custom-width integers, and why modern systems programming languages should absolutely have them.

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