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The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
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Mozilla Releases the First Browser Built for Developers
Developers are critical to the continued success of the Web. The content and apps they create compel us to come back to the Web every day, whether on a computer ...
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User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (2009)
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.
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DeWitt Clause, or can you benchmark %database% and get away with it
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
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Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication. These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories…
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Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation
Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up in our priorities list, and devote more time to it. Below I'll…
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Scheduling in Go: Part II
Scheduling In Go : Part II - Go Scheduler. This blogpost is the second installment in a three-part series exploring the mechanics and semantics of the Go …
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Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
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Semantic Search with SQLite
txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
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Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)
Through an unprecedented series of technical, business, and cultural innovations, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation spawned hundreds of ventures that established Silicon Valley as a world center of entrepreneurial activity and technological leadership. Although the firm’s market valuation never exceeded $2.5…
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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Merging Remix and React Router
We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.
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Next.js 14
Next.js 14 includes included performance, stability for Server Actions, a new course teaching the App Router, and more.
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New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
Diagnostics play a very important role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper guidance in any situation, especially incomplete or invalid code.
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The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys
Petr Švenda, Matúš Nemec, Peter Sekan, Rudolf Kvašňovský, David Formánek, David Komárek, and Vashek Matyáš, Masaryk University
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Zig 0.10.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
December 10, 2020 – Post updated for the extension of the T4g free-trial until March 31, 2021. During the free-trial period, customers who run a t4g.micro instance will automatically get 750 free hours per month deducted from their bill during each month. T4g free-trial will be available in addition to the existing…
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Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intel machines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?
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Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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WebExtensions in Firefox 48
We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 47 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 48, which landed in Developer ...
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Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
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Building a professional design tool on the web using C++ and Emscripten
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere. That’s why…
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Amazon DynamoDB On Demand
January 31, 2025: Post updated to clarify the reduced on-demand pricing and workloads recommendations. Just a few years ago, creating a database that could support your business at any scale while providing consistent low latency was a daunting task. That changed for me in 2012 while reading Werner Vogels’ blog post…