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Evolving GitHub Issues
GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects,…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,535 posts.
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Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)
Taking the League of Legends game server from a nondeterministic process to its current state required almost a full year of effort from multiple engineers. As a side benefit of this effort, we holistically improved the codebase’s robustne…
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Code Generation in Rust vs. C++26
One of the things I like to do is compare how different languages solve the same problem — especially when they end up having very different approaches. It’s always educational. In this case, a bunch of us have been working hard on trying to get reflection — a really transformative language feature — into C++26…
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FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs
I'm the president of VideoLAN, one of the lead developers of VLC and a maintainer of open source multimedia projects. I created several startups, was the CTO of scale-ups, and advised startups and VCs.
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A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect
This set of slides sketches out the implementation of Hell , in technical detail. I do tend to switch between the slides, old code, and the present code, so bear with me. It's more about the ideas. If you want to see a complete implementation, the complete implementation of Hell is one file , which you can look…
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Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Whilst Visual Studio Code is "open-source" (as per the OSD) the value-add which transforms the editor into anything of value ("what people actually refer
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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
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Serialization Is the Secret
If a value mutates in the forest with no one to see it, does it really mutate?
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Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
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Notes on the Crystal Language
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
(please note that there’s a correction at the bottom) In the Overview of cross-architecture portability problems, I have dedicated a section to the problems resulting from use of 32-bit time_…
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PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao
We’re happy to officially launch torchao, a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low bit dtypes, quantization and sparsity. torchao is an accessible toolkit of techniques written...
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Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill
All you need to know about the latest Python release including Global Interpreter Lock and Just-in-Time compilation.
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Rewriting Rust: A Response
Joseph Gentle wrote a post on how he wants Rust to change. I am already working on that.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
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Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
Google altered the deal
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Rewriting Rust
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we
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Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threa...
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Why I still blog after 15 years
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
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Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite
Learn how we approached migrating our Wafris v1 client based on Redis to a new faster, easier to use SQLite architecture.
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Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
One of the all-time great XKCDs. It's amazing that "check whether the photo is of a bird" has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, …
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Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
I was toying around with a refactor the other day that would have taken me ages by hand as it involved 100s of files. I wanted to rename every instance of...
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Why is F# code robust and reliable?
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
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Overview of cross-architecture portability problems
Ideally, you’d want your program to work everywhere. Unfortunately, that’s not that simple, even if you’re using high-level “portable” languages such as Python. In thi…
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Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr . To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs. One of such features is panicking and unwinding.
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Compiling to Assembly from Scratch
Then come along! Let’s make a compiler that goes all the way from source to assembly from scratch—no shortcuts!
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Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.