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Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
The world of cybersecurity is full of perils. Many of those perils stem from misconceptions about the nature of cybersecurity. If you come to the insight that perfect security is unachievable, you may reach the conclusion that being concerned with cybersecurity at all is a waste of your time. After …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I love programming languages, both using them and implementing them. As such, I found the concept of learning Go by creating a programming language to be just delightful. And, to put it briefly, it was. Let's talk about Thorsten Ball's book on interpreters. In Go.
Writing an Interpreter in Go …Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
About a month ago I signed myself up to do a talk at a Python meetup hosted by HiQ. I brazenly set my topic as Under the Hood of CPython, thinking I had sufficient understanding of its inner workings to produce a riveting talk. As I started preparing the talk …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I've been learning Rust on and off for the past few months, and The Rust Programming Language has been my primary learning resource during this time. It's a great introduction to the language, and is even freely available online.
Here, I'm reviewing the 2018 print version. Although a little bit …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is a collection of short essays by experienced programmers. And by short, I mean short: 1-3 fairly tiny pages a piece. If you're on a journey to become a software engineer then this book will give you a crash course in terminology you should …