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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
Release notes for Ghostty 1.1.0, released on January 30, 2025.
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Xerox Alto Source Code (2014)
Depending on your age, your first computer might have been an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80, an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or another of the early personal computers. If you missed these early machines the first time around, perhaps you have seen them in the Personal Computer section of the Revolution exhibit at the…
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A better build system for OCaml
A “build system” is one of the most important tools in a developer’s toolbox. Roughly, it figures out how to create runnable programs from a bunch of differe...
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An update on Dart macros and data serialization
We have invested significant time and resources to prototype macros over the past couple years. Unfortunately, each time we solved a major…
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How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?
This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek's most recent model.
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Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
DeepSeek R-1 is the most powerful open-source reasoning model that performs on par with OpenAI's o1 model. Run the 1.58-bit Dynamic GGUF version by Unsloth.
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A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet
Starting with a 192-byte one-liner that implements a Reverse Polish Notation arithmetic compiler, we'll work backward to transform it into readable JavaScript by removing one code golf trick at a time
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Threlte 8
The next major release of Threlte
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How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
Here’s how we built a two-way Slack bridge with full impersonation to deliver white glove support to thousands of Railway developers from our help center.
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Citations on the Anthropic API
Claude can now cite specific passages from your documents, delivering verifiable responses with built-in source tracking. Update: Now available in Amazon Bedrock. (June 30, 2025) Today, we're launching Citations, a new API feature that lets Claude ground its answers in source documents.
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Bun 1.2 Is Released
Built-in Postgres client with Bun.sql, built-in S3 object support with Bun.s3, a new text-based lockfile: bun.lock, Express is 3x faster, and a major update on Node.js compatibility.
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Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
When designing a modern API, learn when to use RPC (gRPC), OpenAPI or REST.
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C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
Threads, TLS, a C stdlib race, and Rust: how EdgeDB hit a hidden landmine.
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Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try
We are proud to present the first 3 working applications developed with Castle Game Engine for the web! Check them out — just open the links below, in any web browser (Firefox, Chrome…)…
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials
Learn Robotics and ROS 2 Have you been looking for a good place to start your robotics and ROS 2 learning journey? Look no further! We are proud to announce that together with the University of Eastern Finland, we have open-sourced the robotics part from our “Robotics & XR” master’s-level course. You can find the […]
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Zig: What to Expect from Release Month
We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.
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GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
Now in public preview, Linux arm64 hosted runners are available for free in public repositories. Following the release of arm64 larger hosted runners in June, this offering now extends to…
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GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
Following our opt-in preview last year, we are excited to release sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues to everyone! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who opted-in and gave…
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A standards-first web framework
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
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Modern JavaScript for Django developers
Working with Django in the modern JavaScript ecosystem without giving up the things that make it great
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Rust: Investigating an Out of Memory Error
TL;DR: We discovered the hard way that when backtrace is enabled, the anyhow library is capturing a backtrace on every error. Only when printing this error in debug format!(”err: {:?}”, error) backtrace’s symbols are resolved to human-friendly names, thus leading to a significant memory increase for your application…
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Data evolution with set-theoretic types
We explore how set-theoretic types could address how many statically typed languages do not allow libraries to evolve their public data definitions in a backwards compatible manner. The proposed solution aims to be automatically verified by the compiler and type safe.
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Voyage-code-3
TL;DR – Introducing voyage-code-3, our next-generation embedding model optimized for code retrieval. It outperforms OpenAI-v3-large and CodeSage-large by an average of 13.80% and 16.81% on a suite …
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Five years of React Native at Shopify
Five years ago, we announced that React Native (RN) is the future of mobile at Shopify. Today, we are excited to share the progress we've made, lessons learned, and what the future holds. To recap, we decided to switch to RN for 3 main reasons: Write it once - Stop building the same features twice, once on iOS and…
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Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...