Understanding JSON Schema.

Clojure from a Schemer’s perspective (via Irreal). ̀#scheme

Software engineers have been led to believe that their time is more valuable than CPU time; therefore, wasting CPU cycles in order to reduce development time is always a win. They’ve forgotten, however, that the application users’ time is more valuable than their time. — The fallacy of premature optimization

Practical Cryptography for Developers.

Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp. #lisp

A hacker’s guide to numerical analysis.

Decoded: GNU coreutils. Lot of useful references and very detailed explanations. #unix

My overall feeling is that if I could spend infinite time and effort, my C programs would be as fast or faster than Rust, because theoretically there’s nothing that C can’t do that Rust can. But in practice C has fewer abstractions, primitive standard library, dreadful dependency situation, and I just don’t have the time to reinvent the wheel, optimally, every time. — Speed of Rust vs. C

Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python’s tar library compared to macOS tar?. TL;DR https://stackoverflow.com/a/14885821/420055.