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user: benhoyt
created: 2007-02-21
karma: 7375

Software engineer and manager at Canonical. Author of GoAWK, a POSIX-compatible AWK interpreter with CSV support (written in Go). Author of Python's os.scandir(). Husband, father, Christian. See my personal website: https://benhoyt.com/

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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen
4 points | 1 comments
Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue
101 points | 16 comments
Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science
140 points | 32 comments
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GNU Awk and Me: 37 Years of Free Software Development [video]
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Code Coverage for GoAWK (2022)
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I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
264 points | 130 comments
Don't fear Python subprocess or Go codegen
2 points | 0 comments
Jubilant: Python Subprocess and Go Codegen
2 points | 0 comments
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Coregex: Go regex lib 3-3000x+ as fast as stdlib via multi-engine arch and SIMD
1 points | 0 comments
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The small web is beautiful (2021)
2 points | 0 comments
A dive into the making of Immersion (64k demo)
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Disabling Scheduled Dependency Updates
18 points | 7 comments
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Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)
68 points | 79 comments
Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10 (2021)
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