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Technical Blogs You Recommend?

Posted by error_salad on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:06PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm looking for technical blogs about software programming and software engineering. Mainly just for fun but also for educational purposes (broadening my knowledge horizon if you will). Maybe it's just me, but finding good content like that is somewhat difficult. Do you guys have any recommendations for blogs? At the moment I prefer blogs, but I'm also open for book suggestions. Have a nice day.

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Re:A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:58PM (#33309264)
Neat! Will you release the source code?
Re:Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:57AM (#33288044)
I get that over employment is an issue, but cutting 75% of the workforce seems a bit too much. At that point I don't understand how the engineering team can cope, not even mentioning the loss of knowledge in the codebase and the loss of morale.
Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with lega... on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:53PM (#32905262)
Double speak in a nutshell.

Ask HN: Recommendations on trying to write a efficient text editor

Posted by error_salad on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For a while now, I've been writing a small text editor. The idea is that I have a basic mvp that I can add to here and there. Currently I'm writing it in c++ using SDL2 to render and using a doubly linked list of gap buffers to store the text. At the moment it's not as performant as I'd like it to be and I've been wondering if there's more efficient ways to store text and render it. Maybe my...

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Re:Ask HN: Are older programming books useful? on Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:13PM (#32131958)
Sure. I have a book about Basic from the 1980s. Obviously when I got it, the book was way outdated, but served as a nice introduction to programming in general and what to expect. (I was six at the time. Didn't realize the full extent of the book.)