the arc of software bends towards understanding
Along with a Nexus 7, I also acquired a Kindle Paperwhite over winter break. (Wi-Fi only) I have been quite pleased by this purchase, though in an unexpected way: while I have not increased the number of books I read, the Kindle has materially changed how I read articles on the Internet. Not via their […]
I’d like to talk about some nitty-gritty details of GHC’s thread scheduling, discovered over the course of working on stride scheduling for GHC. Most of these choices are merely implementation details and are not part of any specification. While these choices shouldn’t be relied upon, they are worth knowing, since many of these details were […]
So you want to make a web app. In today’s world, there is a panoply of software to assist you: you can use an all-in-one framework, or you can grab libraries to deal with the common needs of templating, database access, interactivity, etc. These libraries unify common functionality and take care of edge-cases you might […]