Swizec's articles in the "language" category
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Slack lied to me
August 25th, 2016
Webpack lazy loading on Rails with CDN support
June 4th, 2015
Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
February 19th, 2014
My old code is atrocious
November 12th, 2013
About achieving polymorphism in Javascript
October 15th, 2013
Dynamic languages have jumped the shark
May 31st, 2013
An English pet peeve
May 14th, 2013
Writing a REST client in Haskell
April 25th, 2013
My very own daily WTF
January 10th, 2013
I infiltrated #railsgirlslj, here's what it was like
December 17th, 2012
Webcamp Zagreb report
November 27th, 2012
Experienced developers can't solve this problem
November 2nd, 2012
Monads, monads, monads, monads
September 3rd, 2012
The birth of LISP - a summary of John McCarthy's original paper
August 22nd, 2012
Levenshtein distance in Haskell
July 6th, 2012
Why I still haven't learned Haskell
June 18th, 2012
Why people making compilers are superheroes
June 11th, 2012
Natural Language Generation system architectures
May 30th, 2012
My brain can't handle OOP anymore
May 7th, 2012
Using Backbone to improve multiselects
April 13th, 2012
What Refactoring is, and what it isn't
April 11th, 2012
My language is better than yours
March 30th, 2012
Closure and currying magic for cleaner javascript
March 14th, 2012
How to make your django app slow
March 5th, 2012
The commonest javascript bug
February 24th, 2012
Collatz, Haskell and Memoization
January 9th, 2012
Deca - a cool systems programming language
January 4th, 2012
Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes
December 29th, 2011
Learning me a Haskell
December 23rd, 2011
Javascript's lack of strftime
December 12th, 2011
Fun javascript feature
December 7th, 2011
A turing machine in 133 bytes of javascript
November 28th, 2011
Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript
November 11th, 2011
Programmers are fucking lazy
October 18th, 2011
Functional isn't always better
October 7th, 2011
A cool JavaScript property you never noticed
A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.
April 16th, 2011
Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency
April 15th, 2011
The strangestest Hello World I ever made
August 19th, 2010
Django protip #1: A better App structure
July 21st, 2010
Processing as-you-read in clojure
April 12th, 2010
The Slavic Esperanto
March 8th, 2010
How Lisp changed my style
January 11th, 2010
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
Join Swizec's Newsletter and get insightful emails 💌 on mindsets, tactics, and technical skills for your career. Real lessons from building production software. No bullshit.
"Man, love your simple writing! Yours is the only newsletter I open and only blog that I give a fuck to read & scroll till the end. And wow always take away lessons with me. Inspiring! And very relatable. 👌"