Stories by fanf2

JSON5: JSON for humans

Hjson: a user interface for JSON

Jsonnet: a data templating language

/zish: A data serialization format

Edn: extensible data notation, a subset of Clojure

SDLang: a simple declarative language with an XML-like structure

HOCON: human-optimized config object notation

Barrier: Open-source KVM software (a fork of Synergy)

PostgreSQL features you may not have tried but should

From Ruby and ActiveRecord to Rust and Diesel

The man who saw the dangers of Cambridge Analytica years ago

Rust MIR-based borrow check (non-lexical lifetimes) status update

Holy Grails and Thameslink Fails: the timetable that went wrong

‘Like’ is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative

A brief history of the Erlang BEAM compiler

Web Prolog: Erlang-Style Distributed Concurrency in SWI-Prolog

Functional baby talk: analysis of code fragments from novice Haskell programmers

A new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table

Unlocking intersection types with `var` in Java 10

Where do Rust threads come from?