athul

Always late to the party

[athul @hashb42]

@championswimmer Con is that there's no mobile app.

[athul @hashb42]

@championswimmer Gnucash, if you have the time for it. It's not the most attractive option out there. Using double entry accounting has allowed me to represent all of my financials - regular expenses, split transaction, loans, sinking funds - across multiple currencies in a single app.

[Vik Paruchuri @VikParuchuri]

I'm excited to announce that Chandra OCR is open source!

- Full layout information
- Extracts and captions images and diagrams
- Strong handwriting, form, table support
- Works with transformers and vLLM

[athul @hashb42]

Does anyone know why The ACM Software System Award is suspended?

From their website:

[athul @hashb42]

@joshyjmc @TfL @TfL I’m facing the same issue since the last app update.

[athul @hashb42]

Brute grep-ing across a company codebase is an underappreciated replacement for proper documentation.

[athul @hashb42]

Diff reviews are the most effective educational tool I've encountered. You can preach SOLID and DRY all day, but there's nothing quite as effective as giving detailed comments on code that tie back to these abstract principles.

[athul @hashb42]

@dabeaz has the most accessible intro to Python GIL and the non-intuitive performance pitfall it induces. I wonder how much GIL has changed since this talk in 2010.

https://t.co/YgpB9WuV9Y

[athul @hashb42]

Coming from the land of Go, concurrency in Python feels clunky; bolted on like an afterthought.

[athul @hashb42]

Coming from the land of Go, concurrency in Python feels clunky; bolted on like an afterthought.

[athul @hashb42]

@TheHolyKau @LBS @nikhildgj @lennysan @stratechery @shreyas Thank you!

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

"I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier."

– Henry Rollins

[Bramus @bramus]

👀 Sticky Scroll

https://t.co/vTI7bnwILt

[Go @golang]

In March we announced #GoHack partnership with CERN, challenging Gophers around the world to build open source web applications in Go and improve a series of featured open source Go libraries. Over 1,000 of you participated.

Congratulations to the winners! A thread. 🧵

[Matías N. Goldberg @matiasgoldberg]

"The HDMI Forum forbids the implementation of HDMI 2.1 features on open-source drivers"

Excuse me? WHAT?!

[Pekka Enberg @penberg]

How do people learn about the art of low latency programming?

I never found any good book or web reference on low latency but instead learned via folklore 🦄 or by experimentation 🧑‍🔬.

1/5

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

Most companies suck at on-boarding new team members.

Here's how to on-board yourself when starting a new job:

[gabby @GabriellaG439]

There's no need to panic, everybody. The Hacker News comment section told me that a real programmer can build a Twitter clone in a day

[Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz]

Well, I guess this is one way you could write a #golang language change proposal...

https://t.co/J8YPYdNZvp

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

"notable"
(from "Effective C")