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You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
JavaScript game programming library that helps you make games fast and fun
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
2024-07-06 I’ve archived this post Looking for the post Racket frustrates me? You can read the original post on The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Why archive this post? It’s been about a year since I published this post and since realized something: I don’t have any skin in the game anymore. My workflow is now…
In this case study, we are excited to share an insider's perspective and look under the hood of how a Massive.com customer built an automated retail trading bot that is capable of monitoring the entire stock market in real-time.
Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl , that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates?Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL…
I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
When the pages stop turning
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format. It all began on June 16, 2003,
I bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on.
A comprehensive guide to publishing your video game as free software
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
In this blogpost, we introduce our latest series of chatbot models, LongChat-7B and LongChat-13B, featuring a new level of extended context length up to 16K tokens.
Since its launch, YouTube’s TrueView skippable in-stream ad product has been underpinned with a single, tantalizing promise: you “don’t pay a dime” if viewers skip your ad. But turns out there’s a catch: they’ve made it almost impossible to skip the ads. This is just one of the revelations that Dr. Krzysztof Franaszek…
I just published the 41st revision of my self-published book Ansible for DevOps, which has sold 87,234 copies as of this writing across LeanPub, Amazon (Kindle and paperback), and iBooks. There are multiples of that number of eBooks downloaded, as I've never DMCA'ed the sites that re-host the book illegally. I just…
Discover the English SDK for Apache Spark, making data analytics more accessible with simple English instructions powered by Generative AI.
I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.
Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
Structures allow us to combine several variables to create a new data type. Some other languages support the same concept but call it “records”. If you come from object-oriented program…
“The seeing, spiritual being, whose manifestation we commonly call conscience, always points with one end towards right and with the other towards wrong, and we do not notice it while we foll…
Every user of Rocky Linux is valued and their contributions matter. From software engineers to IT professionals and hobbyists, together, we are all pa...
Physics researchers from Drexel University at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory led the production of the unique neutrino-based image of the Milky Way Galaxy using particles of matter instead of the usual electromagnetic energy.
We are celebrating 25 years of the KDE Free Qt Foundation.
I offer a high-level model for why software work feels like it sucks now: we don't treat software like creative output.
A series of patterns for building an AI co-pilot application.
Dafny is a programming language which often genuinely amazes me.
