Fernando Borretti

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The Best Emacs Microfeature
5 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Why I keep using Emacs in 2024.

The Design Space of Wikis
2 Jun 2024 | original ↗

An exploration of the design space of wikis.

Type Inference Was a Mistake
29 Mar 2024 | original ↗

On type inference as an academic computer science lab leak.

Thoughts on LLM Agents
5 Jan 2024 | original ↗

Entropy, criticality, and complexity classes of cellular automata.

You Need More Constraints
30 Jul 2023 | original ↗

A checklist of useful SQL constraints.

Type Systems for Memory Safety
22 Jul 2023 | original ↗

A survey of type systems for memory safety.

Why Checked Exceptions Failed
15 Jul 2023 | original ↗

Programming language features are never orthogonal.

Test Against Reality
8 Jul 2023 | original ↗

Against mocking.

Test Autodiscovery is a Silver Bullet
24 Jun 2023 | original ↗

To encourage good practices, make them frictionless.

Second-Class References
12 Jun 2023 | original ↗

On Graydon's Rust, Val, and mutable value semantics.

Depth-First Procrastination
9 Jun 2023 | original ↗

When subgoals recur infinitely.

Why Lisp Syntax Works
5 Jun 2023 | original ↗

On uniform vs. specific syntax.

Sketch of a Post-ORM
2 Jun 2023 | original ↗

A better way to interact with databases.

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