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What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?

Companies suck for different reasons. Don't conflate all of big tech into one blob, reason over companies according to their income streams.

Remaking Party House

You can just do things.

How many options fit into a boolean?

Funny notes on niche optimizations in Rust, and a few updates.

I really like the Helix editor.

'Search & Replace' popup windows are bad user interface design.

The tech interview is a legible, reasonably well-designed process.

Basically a review of 'Seeing Like a State'. And some other thoughts.

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.

Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake?

Yet another article complaining about Go's error handling.

Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)

Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.

Type Inference in Rust and C++

Well, at least it's not Swift.

The two factions of C++

The dream of a single dialect-free C++ has probably been dead for many years, anyway.

Solving LeetCode™ problems with Racket

I don't know what I expected.

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