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Making our new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
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What's New in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 adds support for PHP enums, as well as readonly properties, Fibers, performance improvements, new in initializers, and more.
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The censorship of WallStreetBets needs to be a watershed moment for everyone
This event is when censorship overstepped a very serious mark.
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Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right! Update 1: Since 2021, networks have gotten faster and now…
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Factorio 1.1 stable
1.1 stable kovarex Hello, we have a stable version! When we were releasing the 1.0 FFF-360, we actually stated that there were "around 150 bugs on the forums and around 80 internal tasks to be solved". These were obviously minor issues, things hard to reproduce or very rare problems. In other words, it was quite…
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Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
Visual mode is a mouseless way of selecting any text on any page (with as few keystrokes as possible). Conceptually based on vi 's visual mode, Nyxt adapts it for the web.
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Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)
CP/M was blessed with many programming languages, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. I think that Turbo Pascal stands out from these and I'm not alon
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Shorting and Indian capital markets
I guess you have read the headlines from the US on how retail traders are causing a “short squeeze” in stocks like GameStop, AMC entertainment, etc. If
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A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
Posted By Samuel Groß, Project Zero On December 20, Citizenlab published “The Great...
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Suck It, Wall Street
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker
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Losing faith in UX
Digital design increasingly exploits users.
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano
Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon , something I've been looking forward to for years.
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Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019)
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Jul 7, 2024. 93 min read. Hey there, you’re reading an updated version of a post I published way back in 2019. Because of the 2024 Plotnine contest and the recent release of Polars 1.0, I decided to freshen things up. Changes include: Upgrade to Plotnine version 0.13.6 (from…
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Analyzing and breaking an externally encrypted HDD
Analyzing and breaking external encrypted HDD has been a “hobby” of mine for quite some time. With my colleagues Joffrey Czarny and Julien Lenoir we looked at several models in the past :
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VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
The new VM Manager simplifies infrastructure and compliance management for the largest of Compute Engine VM fleets.
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What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
What am I running inside my bash?
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Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
I've worked in open source my entire career1. To say that I'm worried about the impact recent events have on the open source ecosystem would be an understatement. In the past couple months: Red Hat effectively killed CentOS Elastic effectively killed Elasticsearch People may rightfully refute these statements, but the…
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Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps
I’d like to share my experience of encountering Hotwire from the team at Basecamp which was extracted from the tooling used to build their…
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)
Knight First Amendment Institute2021646 points374 commentscited by 10Society, Policy & Culture details
After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy. Some feel that these platforms have become cesspools of…
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Pricing a SaaS product (2019)
Today I increased pricing plans across Votemojo and Previewmojo. All plans now start at $49 a month. Here's why charging $9 a month for your indie SaaS product is a really silly idea.
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Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
Is mental illness a thing? What kind of thing is it?
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EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
Along with Threema, Tresorit, and Tutanota, we are releasing a joint statement calling on the EU to reject any ban or attack on end-to-end encryption.