Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
pluralmonad 37 minutes ago [-]
Cloudflare says I'm not allowed to view the page. At least they are protected from "attacks."
shaftoe444 1 days ago [-]
> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
Cthulhu_ 4 hours ago [-]
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
arccy 2 hours ago [-]
don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
pstuart 4 hours ago [-]
An amazing distillation of the craft.
dchest 4 hours ago [-]
I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
SA9G 1 hours ago [-]
I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.
fenestella 9 minutes ago [-]
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Transformanshen 43 minutes ago [-]
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And, yep, it's worth a read.