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Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
(This is a modified version of the keynote talk given by Rob Pike at the SPLASH 2012 conference in Tucson, Arizona, on October 25, 2012.)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
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Oracle Contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK
GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation.
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Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so
Unix counts time as seconds since the epoch. Seems straight forward. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ring0VBA – Getting Ring0 Using a Word Document
Hey hey! Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am also known as 'Diz'! I made this site to document my research and contributions throughout the years, and other fun stuff I could come up with. Hope you're having a good day/afternoon/night wherever you are!
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Building software to last forever
How Bear is going to live a long and healthy life
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Multi-Kernel Drifting
Using truss, dtrace & ctfconvert to figure out a faulty illumos kernel module.
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Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
Introducing Turbopack, the Rust-based successor to Webpack. A high-performance bundler for React Server Components and TypeScript codebases.
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Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
Why self-host Zig?<br> For great justice, of course… and also a few more reasons actually.
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From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
We’re sharing lessons learned from shifting our Android development from Java to Kotlin. Kotlin is a popular language for Android development and offers some key advantages over Java. As of today,…
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Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite
Trail of Bits is publicly disclosing CVE-2022-35737, which affects applications that use the SQLite library API. CVE-2022-35737 was introduced in SQLite version 1.0.12 (released on October 17, 2000) and fixed in release 3.39.2 (released on July 21, 2022). CVE-2022-35737 is exploitable on 64-bit systems, and…
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Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning
Support for using Rust in the Linux Kernel was recently merged by Linus Torvalds. This is important because Rust is memory safe, meaning that code written in Rust does not suffer from things like buffer overflows, use-after-free, and other memory management vulnerabilities that plague software written in unsafe…
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How the clipboard works
Reading how copy-paste works from the Wayland specification is non-trivial unless you understand a lot of how desktop computing works and Wayland internal. It took me quite a while to figure it all out, though once you get there, it seems quite obvious.
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Python 3.11.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
Learn more about the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview that enables all developers to quickly & easily build applications that target Wasm runtimes.
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macOS Ventura is now available
macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever.
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No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
Golang online books, articles, tools, etc.
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Buffers on the Edge: Python and Rust
One of my least favorite kinds of bug is when two different systems are interacting and the result has bad behavior but it’s difficult to say which (if either!) system is at fault. This is one of those stories, about Python’s buffer protocol and Rust’s memory model.
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Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc
Gautham's Blog
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2D Global Illumination in Godot (2020)
Hello. This is the first of a series of blog posts I plan to write, breaking apart the algorithms and implementation of a custom 2D global illumination (or p...
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Curl doesn't add libproxy due to its quality issues
curl, along with every other Internet tool with aspirations, supports proxies. A proxy is a (usually known) middle-man in a network operation; instead of going directly to the remote end server, the client goes via a proxy. curl has supported proxies since the day it was born. Which proxy? Applications that do…
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Linux: What Can You Epoll?
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
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Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning
Only nine months after I suggested Tailwind might someday hit an unpleasant inflection point, that may now be happening.
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Incremental Parsing in Go
This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting. Like the rest of aretext, parsers are implemented in Go for portability and performance. Most people do not consider Go a functional programming language; nonetheless, aretext’s parsers rely on functional…
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Clojure 15th Anniversary: A Retrospective
Clojure’s history is beautiful and simple in code. Nubank has a lot of reasons to say: happy birthday, Clojure!
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State of CSS
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
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Between Two Lisps (2020)
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace
In this final part of our Accounting for Developers series, we explore the ins and outs of building a ledger to power a lending marketplace product.
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Quirks, Caveats, and Gotchas in SQLite
The SQL language is a "standard". Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike. Every SQL implementation has its own peculiarities and oddities, and SQLite is no exception to this rule.