Collecting a large number of coupons
This post is an addendum to the recent post Reviewing a thousand things. We’re going to look again at the coupon collector problem, randomly sampling a set of N things with replacement until we’ve collected one of everything. As noted before, for large N the expected number of draws before you’ve seen
Read moreBuilding Standardized API Error Responses in Spring Boot 3 With The Problem Details Specification
How to write RFC7807-compliant error responses in a Spring Boot applicationContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreBuilding a Real-Time Multiplayer Game With Unity3D and Amazon GameLift
Don’t struggle with the backend anymore!Illustration by Gianca ChavestYou are talented with Unity and game creation in general, and it’s time for you to move up a gear by creating a real-time multiplayer game, but you have no idea how to do it, and you know very little about cloud computing. Don’t
Read moreLerna Monorepo with Vite and Storybook
How to organize frontend packages in monorepo, track changes across all projects, reuse shared libraries, and build packages with a modern build systemLerna + Vite + Storybook logos | created by authorBuilding components and reusing them across different packages led me to conclude that it is necessary to organize the correct approach
Read moreCan RFCs Help You Create More Effective Technical Plans Together?
Ways to establish effective processes for collaborating and sharing knowledgeRFCs can help your team collaborate asynchronously, streamline planning, and create more effective technical plans. Here’s how.As engineering teams grow, it becomes increasingly important to establish effective processes for collaborating and sharing knowledge. One such process we implement at Brightec is the
Read moreMonoids in TypeScript
Exploring a simple but powerful concept in abstract Algebra and category theoryPhoto by Jamie Street on UnsplashWhat Are Monoids?If you’re not familiar with monoids, don’t worry. It’s a simple but powerful concept in abstract Algebra and category theory.For this article, I will stick with the definition from abstract algebra, which is easier to understand.To
Read moreWinning with Data: A Dashboard for Formula E Vehicle Analytics
Winning With Data: A Dashboard for Formula E Vehicle AnalyticsBYU Hybrid Blue“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.”- Carly FiorinaBYU Formula E ClubIn the fall of 2022, I joined a new club at my college called BYU Formula. The club is designed for mechanical (ME) and electrical engineers
Read moreThe Overflow #181: More on our AI future
Welcome to ISSUE #181 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: how we built course recommendations (and a whole new data platform), the stars of heavy metal, and the big bets of big tech. From
Read moreEventKitUI Framework in iOS 17
WWDC brings some changes to EventKit and EventKitUI framework. In iOS 17, one's app can add events to the Calendar without prompting the user to access using EKEventEditViewController.If the purpose of your app is to create, configure, and present calendar events in an editor UI, consider saving events to Calendar
Read moreChatting with Apple at WWDC: Macros in Swift and the new visionOS
Today is a special episode recorded at Apple’s campus in Cupertino as part of this year’s WWDC. We got the chance to sit down with the folks who help to build Apple’s developer tools and discuss their newest releases, plus a hint of how they hope developers will create apps
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