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- A Byte of Coding Issue 355
Hey-yo,
If you have any recommendations for open source tools that can be self-hosted, let me know. So far I have a feed aggregator.
Anyway, here’s the issue.
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Published: 20 February 2024
Tags: architecture
Dave Rupert discusses the different iterations in architecture of his startup’s app.
Some highlights:
iteration is always necessary, you’ll never get it right the first time
“Monorepos are pretty great” (hard agree here, dev life is so much easier when you can start everything with one command)
just do it, yesterday you said tomorrow
Published: 20 February 2024
Tags: picat, logic programming
Hillel Wayne dives into the world of logic programming and planning, using the picat programming language.
Some highlights:
“In [logic programming] and constraint solving, we instead provide a set of equations and find assignments that satisfy those relationships”
planning “find[s] variable mutations that reach a certain end state”
code examples in picat included
Tags: sponsored
Unblocked provides helpful and accurate answers to questions about your codebase. It tailors answers by complementing your source code with relevant discussions from GitHub, Slack, Notion, JIRA and more. See how you can spend less time hunting for information and more time doing what you love: writing great code.
Published: 20 February 2024
Tags: c++
Andrey Karpov explains how the “malloc function returns a null pointer if it's unable to allocate a memory buffer of the specified size”, which makes using the assert macro a bad idea to check the pointer (since it checks if equal to 0).
Some highlights:
also applicable to “calloc, realloc, alignedmalloc, _recalloc, strdup”
explicitly checking if ptr == NULL is best practice
assert macro might not work in release builds
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