Friday, Apr 9
Convert JSON to YAML from the command line
made by peter, submitted by nicholasbs
An easy one-liner for converting between JSON and YAML.
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nicholasbs’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: I help run the Recurse Center.
In my spare time, I like learning Mandarin and walking around New York.
Thursday, Apr 1
Learning About ELF With Zig
made by g-w1, submitted by nicholasbs
A post about exploring ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) to build a minimal linker in Zig.
Tuesday, Mar 30
Infinitely nested iFrames
made by bryanbraun, submitted by nicholasbs
Can you infinitely nest iFrames? Bryan walks through his attempts to do this, and how he eventually succeeded.
Monday, Mar 1
Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
made by Mikkel, submitted by nicholasbs
A case for using Git as a solo developer for more than just rolling back to old versions of your code.
Wednesday, Feb 17
GraphQL or REST?! Persisted Queries for the best of both worlds
made by zaiste, submitted by nicholasbs
A case for using "Persisted Queries" with GraphQL to get some of the benefits of REST (without losing the benefits of GraphQL).
Thursday, Feb 11
Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS
made by jemmaissroff, submitted by nicholasbs
A great overview of Ruby 3.0 garbage collector's internal constants and what they're used for.
Thursday, Feb 4
Reading the header of a wav file
made by Fabrizzio, submitted by nicholasbs
Ever wonder how a WAV file is stored? This post explains how WAV files are formatted, along with example C code for reading them.
Wednesday, Feb 3
Visualizing Packrat Parsing
A tool for visualizing and stepping through the execution of a parser. Read the post and try it out yourself: https://ohmlang.github.io/editor/
Tuesday, Feb 2
Let’s Build a Quasiquoter
made by hellerve, submitted by nicholasbs
Veit explains what quasiquoting is, why it's useful, and how he added a quasiquoter to Carp, a statically typed Lisp designed for real-time applications.
Friday, Jan 15
The hyperbezier pen tool
A new model for a path-drawing pen tool that uses "hyperbezier" curves, which have two control points.
