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Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
In this post, CrowdStrike's Engineering team walks through one possible way of adapting a library to handle OOM events without aborting the process.
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Git password authentication is shutting down
As previously announced, starting on August 13, 2021, at 09:00 PST, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com. Instead, token-based authentication (for example, personal…
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MathML Progress
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
Get started with web scraping in Python following this step-by-step tutorial! Learn how to scrape a site with Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries.
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
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James Gosling Interview
We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day.
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OpenAI Codex
We’ve created an improved version of OpenAI Codex, our AI system that translates natural language to code, and we are releasing it through our API in private beta starting today.
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Deno 1.13 Release
Deno 1.13 stabilizes the native HTTP server, and introduces FFI, a streaming WebSocket API, the new self.structuredClone() function and more.
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Rust in Production: Qovery
What are the pros and cons of using Rust for production applications? Find out in our interview with Benjamin Chastanier, a senior software engineer at Qovery.
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Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
This paper from Zhu and Godfrey looks at single-statement bug fixes in Java code: more specifically, at the differences between how bug are fixed by the people who created them and how they are fixed by other people. The authors found that people fix their own bugs more quickly than other people's, which falls under…
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How to Hack APIs in 2021
Detectify Crowdsource is not your average bug bounty platform. It’s an invite-only community of the best ethical hackers who are passionate about securing modern technologies ...
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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
WebAssembly (Wasm) has many applications in the cloud-native world today – WASI, edge cloud computing, Proxy-Wasm, and cloud-native runtime for server
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Firefox: Performance in Progress
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
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Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
Slitter is Backtrace’s deliberately middle-of-the-road thread-caching slab allocator, with explicit allocation class tags (rather than derived from the object’s size class). It’s mostly written in Rust, and we use it in our C backend server. Slitter’s design is about as standard as it gets: we hope to dedicate the…
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
by Eric Evans Perfectionism is a pitfall. For those who, like me, love elegant design and see its utility, there is a slippery slope waiting when a satisfying design does not emerge in a reasonable time. It takes constant self-discipline to recognize this and accept, let go, ship and move on – or return in...
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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
This beginner guide will help you understand how convolution neural networks (CNNs) work and what they are useful for.
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
JFrog finds a new supply chain attack targeting python developers using the PyPI repository
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Six Years of Professional Clojure
TL;DR Clojure is a great programming languages due to its functional nature, lack of objects / concentration on primitive values
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Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
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Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at X-Plane.
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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Command line tools for productive programmers
In this article, the author shares six command-line tools that can enhance productivity for programmers. These tools include `broot` for navigating...
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Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
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Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
Every software team says they do Agile and yet almost nobody is Agile. How did we get to this point? Where do we go from here?