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Summary: Wuffs’ PNG image decoder is memory-safe but can also clock between 1.22x and 2.75x faster than libpng , the widely used open source C implementation. It’s also faster than the libspng , lodepng and stb_image C libraries as well as the most popular Go and Rust PNG libraries. High performance is achieved by…
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep and Stephen Hines, Android Team Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the securit...
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world....
That’s why in February we introduced Lyra: a revolutionary new audio codec using machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls.
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
We successfully deployed ThreadSanitizer in the Firefox project to eliminate data races in our remaining C/C++ components.
Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS…
I just hope my employer continues to allow me to work remotely. Working from home I: Have been exceeding production for the past year Don't have to share a keyboard/mouse/desk with another shift (gross). Do not spend an hour a day(+/- 10 minutes) driving, and save all the money associated
Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.
Most beginners in programming eventually end up with the same ingratiating message: „Programming is easy, everyone can do it”, with some threatening message that people doing the gatekeeping should stop doing that. I’m here to tell you that that is not true. Programming is hard, programming is not for everyone, and…
Maslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.
I have an affinity for performance optimization and making software as efficient as possible. Over the years, I've encountered specific instances and common patterns that make software or computers slow. In this post, I'll shine a spotlight on some of them.
Posted by Carlton Gibson on April 6, 2021
Daily standups feel like a waste of time. I will teach you two new techniques the will make every minute count.
The headline is pretty self-explanatory so in the interest of time, let me just jump directly into the details of how this all works. There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/
Thanks to continued growth of our generous donors, Zig Software Foundation’s financial status is healthier than ever. With our low overhead and efficient organization structure, we point the flow of money directly towards contributors.
Abusing CRLF, cache poisoning, and other misconfigurations for a no-interaction XSS against GitHub Private Pages.
Encoding memories in engram cells is controlled by large-scale remodeling of the proteins and DNA that make up cells’ chromatin, according to an MIT study. This chromatin remodeling, which allows specific genes involved in storing memories to become more active, takes place in multiple stages spread out over several…
Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a…
Non-Judicial Punishment is a key part of democracy and free-market capitalism, and highly problematical, at the same time.
Explains and debunks the most broadcast accusations against Richard Stallman, providing evidence of outright fabrication, exaggeration, or deceit.
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
Git’s man-pages state that it’s a stupid content tracker. It’s probably the most used version control system in the world. Which is very strange, since it doesn’t describe itself as being a source control system. And in fact, you can use git to track any
Crusader Kings III is a pretty impressive game. It’s impressive not only for its official content, but also for its extensive modding…
Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.
Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new role and the new team. I mean, really… How much […]
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
