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| | Over the past few months, the Sigma engineering team at Facebook has rolled out a major Haskell project: a rewrite of Sigma, an important weapon in our armory for fighting spam and malware. Sigma has a mission-critical job, and it...
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| | So first, I should probably set the scene: in a special-purpose browser, automated and driven by JavaScript, there was a string that made no sense. Anytime it should have contained an apostrophe, it produced invalid JSON. Why would it do that, you ask? Well, after far too long digging into the way that smart quotes are represented in Unicode, I finally figured it out. A single left apostrophe, also known as \u2019, takes up three bytes. The third byte happens to be \x19, the obscure ^Y control character. Control characters aren't allowed in JSON strings, and so things exploded.
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| | A hands-on introduction into WebAssembly ( Wasm ). Containing simple wasm examples and wasm tutorials on how to implement concepts and various tasks using WebAssembly.
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| yes I do. That draft was created just after I joined twitter, and in the details I had written that I had just passed 400 tweets. I'm now closing in on 13,000. I am, however, in the process of scaling back my twitter and Facebook usage - I identified last week that as I reduce...