Brian @bdowns328

Software Engineer, Outdoor Enthusiast; #golang, organizer @golangphoenix & BSD-PHX 🌵, #lacrosse 🌲🐻, 🏹, Zimbabwe Lacrosse 🇿🇼 🥍 Chandler Lacrosse github.com/briandowns Phoenix, AZ Joined September 2014

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Justine Moore @venturetwins

19 hours ago

Narrative violation: AI is creating engineering jobs

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Redis does not use C strings antirez wrote a custom string library called SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings it later became a standalone library C strings had three problems Redis could not accept - strlen is O(n) because it scans until the null terminator - strcat needs manual capacity management and often scans the string again internally - and C strings cannot safely store arbitrary binary data because null bytes end the string SDS fixes all of this by storing metadata in a header placed right before the string buffer

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Shitty Future @Shitty_Future

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Brian @bdowns328

5 hours ago

I figured reading Scottish road signs would be familiar but I had no idea how familiar it'd be until I was there. Then a simple google search showed that Scottish Gaelic and Irish diverged from middle Irish and essentially stayed the same language for centuries.

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Brian @bdowns328

5 hours ago

@MrPeterLMorris Shamefully disingenuous. Props though for rage baiting and engagement farming.

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Brian @bdowns328

21 hours ago

@pliutau And he doubles down on his shit take in the comments.

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California Redwoods @PLLRedwoods

22 hours ago

The boys are back home 📍Long Island

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Brian @bdowns328

22 hours ago

Imagine being dumb enough to buy a house with an HOA and then complaining about the rules.

CeCe @cecegkh

a day ago

HOA said no to lawn stripes… these two kings said “Hold my mower!” Two absolute legends out here fighting back and willing to pay the fines. Absolutely love their level of pettiness. Should all HOAs be banned?

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Brian @bdowns328

24 hours ago

@sudox7 And then when you need more features: github.com/briandowns/lib…

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trish @TrisH0x2A

2 days ago

Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack in C part 1 starts with raw Ethernet frames and ARP by part 5 you have a working socket API TCP retransmission and a real networking stack also you can run tools like curl and even a web browser through your own stack one of the fastest ways to go from "I know how to use sockets" to "I know what sockets are actually doing"

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Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R

2 days ago

upgradeToAiRevolution

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Brian @bdowns328

4 days ago

@TrisH0x2A As soon as you need more features, check this out: github.com/briandowns/lib…

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trish @TrisH0x2A

5 days ago

Build Your Own Database From Scratch in C it walks you through building SQLite from scratch. starts with a REPL, then adds a B-tree, then paging, then persistence to disk by the end you understand why databases are structured the way they are. not just how to use them

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trish @TrisH0x2A

6 days ago

did you know that most programming languages are just "C wrappers"

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Brian @bdowns328

6 days ago

@StarWarsDaily_ No. Was moronic. Childish writing. Embarrassingly stupid.

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trish @TrisH0x2A

7 days ago

a professor at Illinois got frustrated with existing systems programming textbooks so he started a wikibook project and had students help write it it covers C, processes, threads, synchronization, memory allocation, networking, filesystems, scheduling and security

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Brian @bdowns328

6 days ago

@youssefadly237 @galal_hussein FreeBSD is maintain but a different perspective. Every bit you stream from Netflix, your switch, PlayStation, routers and switches etc run it. The license is permissive where Linux’s isn’t. Admittedly not the best desktop/laptop experience though.

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Brian @bdowns328

6 days ago

@galal_hussein @youssefadly237 FreeBSD makes all of that simple with their ports collection.

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The Chickasaw Nation @ChickasawNation

a week ago

Play. Compete. Win. Hit the field and learn Chickasaw stickball with Chikasha Toli for men 18 years and older. Visit Chickasaw.net/ChickasawStick… for more information.