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In Defense of YAML

Every programmer has opinions about configuration files. These opinions tend to be strongly held and inversely proportional to the stakes involved. In the last few years, the consensus view has shifted: YAML is bad, TOML is good, and enthusiastic users of...

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Dancing mad with sandboxing

Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!

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Entropy

I've been thinking a lot about randomness lately. I'm not sure why, maybe it's a meta-analysis of my own brain. Either way.

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Recapping the London sprint

Thanks to the gracious hosting by Jane Street, we gathered a bit less than 20 people every day and managed to discuss and work on a large variety of subjects, including truly riveting discussions over the genetics of cross-breeding apples and oranges over...