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Ethereum: A Turing-Complete Cryptocurrency
A full overview of what Ethereum is, how it works, what it does and how to start using or building on it. Explained in simple terms.
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Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter
To streamline the productivity of the JFrog Platform we will be sunsetting Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter, and ChartCenter services on May 1st, 2021.
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GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
The mudflap run time checker has been removed. The mudflap options remain, but do nothing.
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Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
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GRPC and JSON
So you’ve bought into this whole RPC thing and want to try it out, but aren’t quite sure about Protocol Buffers. Your existing code encodes your own objects, or perhaps you have code that needs a particular encoding. What to do? Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC…
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Effective harnesses for long-running agents
How an initializer agent and an incremental coding agent help the Claude Agent SDK make steady progress across many context windows.
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Supabase Wrappers: A framework for building Postgres foreign data wrappers
A framework for building Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers which connects to Stripe, Firebase, Clickhouse, and more.
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Towards Crystal 1.0
Currently the main goal of the Crystal core team is to reach 1.0 in the near future. Since achieving that goal involves a number of non-obvious tradeoffs, we want to use this post to shed some light on those inherent tensions and how they drive our work and priorities for the next few releases.
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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same…
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I Won't Use Next.js
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
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Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
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Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM
Model-View-Intent is a unidirectional data flow architecture with Virtual DOM rendering for single-page web apps, similar to React and Flux but with plenty of surprising additions.
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How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...
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Experimental Python 3 support in Django
Posted by Aymeric Augustin on Aug. 19, 2012
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Launching Ignition and TurboFan
V8 v5.9 comes with a brand-new JavaScript execution pipeline, built upon the Ignition interpreter and the TurboFan optimizing compiler.
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Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Zig 0.15.1
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
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Introducing Transport Layer Security in pure OCaml
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What is property-based testing? (2016)
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you'd think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven't. This is my attempt to fix that.
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)
The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.
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Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Why TMUX over Screen? Well according to the FAQ for tmux it has the following…
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Large-scale graph computing at Google
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, soc...