From string to AST: parsing
Whether you have to do with data in form of CSV, JSON or a full-blooded programming language like C, JavaScript, Scala, or maybe a query language like SQL, you always transform some sequence of characters (or binary values) into a structured representation. Whatever you’ll do with that representation depends on your domain and business goals, […]
Fern Is Hiring Software Engineers in Brooklyn
We’re a small team of generalists who enjoy spending time together. We talk to our customers regularly over shared Slack channels or Zoom. We’re looking for teammates who can identify the root cause of a problem, devise a solution, and then implement it. If you’re thinking about founding a company in the future, this is […]
A Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt Could Change Imaging as We Know It
When it comes to cameras, size matters, but not in the way you think. Any time a new smartphone is released, it is easy to drool over the latest, greatest, and biggest features that allow you to take even more stunning selfies composed of even more megapixels. However, in the world of cameras, smaller cameras […]
Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’
Photos by Sami Kent | Edited by Brendan Spiegel Twenty years ago the man who recorded one of the most successful songs of all time was thrown off a motorbike by a car in Calabar, Nigeria. He hit his head on the road and was rushed to the hospital, where he lay for two weeks, […]
A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks
published 2017-05-07, updated 2017-09-07 [ home ] This post is a rough transcription of a lightning talk I gave at dotScale 2017. One of the things I work on at Lima is master-master filesystem replication. In this kind of system, we need to track causality. In a nutshell, given two events modifying a given piece […]
IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100×100 performance challenge
Two years ago, IBM® set an ambitious challenge for the quantum computing community: Develop quantum algorithms incorporating circuits with 100 qubits and gate depths of 100, while IBM would build a quantum computer capable of returning accurate values for those circuits in less than a day’s runtime. Today at the first-ever IBM Quantum™ Developer Conference […]
FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed. FaSTer was a Canadian magazine and what made it unique is […]
jQuery UI
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you’re building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice. Download jQuery UI 1.14.1 Custom Download Quick […]
Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates
demo_v1.0.18.mp4 It’s the year 2101. Corporations have taken over the world. The only way to be free is to join a pirate crew and start plundering the galaxy. The only mean of survival is to play basketball. Now it’s your turn to go out there and make a name for yourself. Create your crew and […]
Windmill Hiring Senior Front End (Svelte) Engineer in Paris
Looking for a senior, passionate and “cracked” frontend/full-stack engineer to work on the open-source developer platform Windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill We are open to less senior candidates but a high-degree of autonomy and initiative will be expected after a ramp-up period. Our codebase is dense and the frontend is all in Svelte, it has a drag-n-drop app […]