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A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
This essay by Carson Gross explores when to use hypermedia in web development, highlighting its advantages and trade-offs. Carson discusses scenarios where hypermedia is a good fit, such as text and image-heavy UIs, CRUD applications, and nested UIs with well-defined areas. He also addresses when hypermedia may not be…
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Web development, streamlined
Donny (kdy1 on GitHub) is rewriting TypeScript in Rust hoping to speed up tsc which is slow due to its TypeScript base.
Lets start by categorising entries from Are we GUI yet, ignoring those which appear abandoned or not very functional.
Explore the top programming languages on GitHub—and what languages are growing the fastest.
Discover how recent improvements to wireguard-go boost Tailscale client performance on Linux. Learn about key changes, testing methods, and results showing enhanced throughput and efficiency.
Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking
And JavaScript has killed them.
Software is broken, but it's not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world.
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are great tools to make the lives of developers easier.
Looking over the solutions mega-thread , it seems like not many people discovered this trick; when I posted about it , people found it to be noteworthy.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite. The SQLite team quickly addressed the issue but let's take a look at the…
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
I am a big fan of Dave Whyte’s vector animations, like this one: It was generated using a special animation language called Processing (here is Dave …
Go 1.20, which is expected to be released in February 2023, comes with a small change that can possibly improve error handling in applications which heavily use …
What features would be in that spec? Partial page updates? Animated transitions? Layered interactions?
Replace Redis, MongoDB, Kafka & more with PostgreSQL. Reduce complexity, boost development speed. Complete guide with real examples.
The upcomming standard C23 has a lot of additions to the C library clause. Most of them are small, some of them are big but optional.
By Devine Lu Linvega
Vite 4 Release Announcement
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
