When Bash Scripts Bite
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from using shell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader to...
Looking for a technical writer
Update: I’m excited to say that we’ve now hired a (great!) technical writer, so the position is closed.
By: Yaron Minsky
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Caveat Configurator: how to replace configs with code, and why you might not want to
We have a new tech talk coming up on May 17th, from our very own Dominick LoBraico. This one is about how to represent configurations...
By: Yaron Minsky
This is not the performance you were looking for: the tricks systems play on us
It’s often surprising just how much software performance depends on how the software is deployed. All the time and effort you’ve invested in optimization can...
By: Andy Myers
Trivial meta-programming with cinaps
From now and then, I found myself having to write some mechanical and repetitive code. The usual solution for this is to write a code...
By: Jeremie Dimino
One more talk, two more videos
I’m happy to announce our next public tech talk, called Seven Implementations of Incremental, on Wednesday, April 5th, presented by yours truly. You can register...
By: Yaron Minsky
What a Jane Street software engineering interview is like
Are you thinking about applying to Jane Street for a software engineering role? Or already have a phone interview scheduled but unsure what to expect?...
By: Sebastian Funk
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Jane Street Tech Talks: Verifying Puppet Configs
Our first Jane Street Tech Talk went really well! Thanks to everyone who came and made it a fun event.
By: Yaron Minsky
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How to Build an Exchange
UPDATE: We are full up. Tons of people signed up for the talk, and we’re now at the limit of what we feel like we...
By: Yaron Minsky
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A brief trip through Spacetime
Spacetime is a new memory profiling facility for OCaml to help find space leaks and unwanted allocations. Whilst still a little rough around the edges,...
By: Leo White
A solution to the ppx versioning problem
Ppx is a preprocessing system for OCaml where one maps over the OCaml abstract syntax tree (AST) to interpret some special syntax fragments to generate...
By: Jeremie Dimino
Observations of a functional programmer
I was recently invited to do the keynote at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop, a 15-year-old gathering which is attached to ICFP, the...
By: Yaron Minsky
