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Django 3.1
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Aug. 4, 2020
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PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
Baidu publishes PP-YOLO and pushes the state of the art in object detection research by building on top of YOLOv3, the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework, and cutting edge computer vision research.
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Julia 1.5 Highlights
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
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Racket 7.8
Racket version 7.8 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all of the functionality of Racket BC (the curre...
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GTK 3.99
This week, we're releasing GTK 3.99, which can only mean one thing: GTK4 is getting really close! Back in February, when 3.98 was released, we outlined the features that we wanted to land before making a feature-complete 3.99 release. This was the list: Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts Movable popovers…
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Speculation in JavaScriptCore
This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.
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Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.
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Highlights from Git 2.28
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
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Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
We software developers have historically used the terms “frontend” and “backend” to describe work on client-side (e.g., browser) and server-side applications, respectively. This conceptual split has evolved into the creation of specialized developer roles for each, which is still the norm throughout the industry. In…
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...
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Safely Reviving Shared Memory
At Mozilla, we want the web to be capable of running high-performance applications so that users and content authors can choose the safety, agency, and openness of the web platform. ...
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Svelte and TypeScript
Typernetically enhanced web apps
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Ways to make a web component
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
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Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 3.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes to help distributed and remote teams stay productive and focused. Zulip is the open-source threaded team chat app, used by thousands of teams globally. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading experience …
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Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers
Abstract Syntax errors are generally easy to fix for humans, but not for parsers in general nor LR parsers in particular. Traditional ‘panic mode’ error recovery, though easy to implement and applicable to any grammar, often leads to a cascading chain of errors that drown out the original. More advanced error recovery…
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Performance Improvements in .NET 5
Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.
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Hacking with environment variables
How malicious environment variables can trick scripting language interpreters into executing arbitrary commands, a Linux exploitation technique.
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Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
A browser is an enormously complex piece of software, and it's always in development. About a year ago, we asked ourselves: how could we do better? Our CI relied heavily ...
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Programming at the REPL (2018)
Clojure REPLs are used for a broad spectrum of purposes, from learning the language to data exploration to live music performance. This chapter will provide some guiding principles for applying Clojure REPLs to the more common use case of pragmatic software development.
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Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
We are looking for feedback on the Temporal proposal to improve date & time handling in JavaScript.
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PostgreSQL Templates
What are PostgreSQL templates and what are they used for?