Archive - The Coder Cafe

March 2025

Lurking Variables

Proactively segmenting data per influencing factors can help discover lurking variables before they lead to misinterpretations.

Mar 26 •

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

Thanks to constructs like monads, imperative-style code can be reconciled with the purity and declarative nature of functional programming.

Mar 20 •

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

When temporality becomes causality.

Mar 18 •

Tidying are a subset of refactorings. Tidying are the cute, fuzzy little refactorings that nobody could possibly hate on.

Mar 11 •

Simultaneous Multithreading

What are the key benefits of using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in CPU architecture?

Mar 5 •

February 2025

10 Rules I Learned About Technical Writing

Empathy matters: Just because something is simple for you doesn’t mean it’s simple for your reader.

Feb 26 •

Instruction Pipelining

The key to performance? Keep the CPU busy, not waiting.

Feb 19 •

Linux Soft vs. Hard Lockup

Tracking soft and hard lockups is crucial to monitor the health of Linux-based systems.

Feb 13 •

Partially Applied Functions vs. Currying

Combining currying with partial application leads to a cleaner and more concise way to break down complex functions into reusable components.

Feb 11 •

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