The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
Linked is a reference to the “brain sandwich. I think it’s a useful model for thinking about the impact of ai on the craft of programming and the discipline of software engineering.
Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages
Linked is a handy little trip down memory lane. Kind of an evolutionary tree of programming languages over the last 30 years.
Linked is info about the engineering of the Panama Canal from the canal museum in Panama City.
Become a computer operating system and try not to anger the user!
Really cool game to learn something about operating systems.
DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for ...
Codebase on which safari web browser was built is apparently an open source project
Opening the curricular black box
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Jesus Castello walks through the basics of cryptography using examples in Ruby. This is an excellent primer on crypto.
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