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Standards	Compact Base64-first UIDs Defending $HOME XDG Migration Status	📂 The Dirs Project 📂 Talk directories-jvm directories-rs & dirs-rs	Unicode & Character Sets Path handling on Windows	Falsehoods about paths Calendrical calculations
Languages	Design Principles: Modern & Minimal Familiarity Easy wins: Useful Syntax Sugar Use [], not <> for Generics Use ident: Type, not Type ident Use consistent casing Use consistent keyword length Simplicity matters: Unnecessary: Unary Operators Overused: Binary Operators Obsolete: Modifiers Failed Attempts Drop break and continue Fields & Methods & Properties? Pick Two! Mistakes were made: Popular, but Wrong Implicit Numeric Conversions Package Objects in Scala Rust's Almost-Rules Struct initialization in Rust The lower bar of "Rust 2.0" (More) Rust Design Mistakes	✨ The Core Language ✨ About Design Equality & Identity: Overview Problems Solution Fixing Haskell Fixing Rust Fixing Swift Comparing & Sorting Unified Condition Expressions: Introduction Implementation Exceptions Comparison with Rust Type Ascriptions & Generics Naming Conventions: Creation Conversion Options Lookup Streaming Unions	Minimalism in Programming Language Design 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages 7 programming ur-languages Wirth Evolution: Pascal Modula-2 Oberon Memories: Edinburgh ML to Standard ML My thoughts on OCaml Swift Regrets Compiling Swift Genericspdf Impoliteness of Overriding Cyclone's Fascinating Influence Ownership you can count on Semicolon Inference Shift Larger Than Register Size Hundred year mistakes	Syntax Comparisons/Overviews: Rigaux PLDB Hyperpolyglot Chlipala Type classes: confluence, coherence & global uniqueness Semantics of Dependency Resolvers In Praise of Mandatory Indentation Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures Living in a Post-Functional World Almost Rules in Rust Pretend That Task = Thread? Async Rust Is A Bad Language Avoid Async Rust At All Cost
Runtimes	Domains as Cargo Namespaces	Efficient Memory Use: Pointer Compression Header Compression	Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes Virtual Machines Summer School 2016 How JIT Compilers are Implemented and Fast JVM Anatomy Quarks	Pointer Compression in V8 Cranelift Backend: Instruction Selection Compiler Efficiency Correct Register Allocation A New Register Allocator
Interfaces	x86 prefix & escape flowchart Improving the XFCE Settings UI	Improving the Synaptic Package Manager UI Vertical Tabs in Firefox	Hybrid Dynamic/Static Linking Dynamic Linking in Swift αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε C Isn't A Language Anymore To Save C, We Must Save ABI The Day The Standard Library Died	Your ABI is Probably Wrong Kinds Are Calling Conventionspdf Ghosts of Unix Past: Design patterns Conflated designs Unfixable designs High-maintenance designs On ELF: Part 1 Part 2
Hardware	Keyboard Design USB-HID Protocol Evolution	Keyboard Build Keyboard Setup	Writing an OS in Rust RISC-V: The Middling/Bad/Ugly	Linear Address Masking