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Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules
Deno 1.28 ships with stabilized npm modules, auto-discovered lock file, a new subprocess API, and more
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,823 posts.
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Rust and C++ Interoperability
In this blog post, I want to explore both directions of integration between Rust and C++ and present some tools we use in Slint.
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Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Build the Modular Monolith First
Even talking about building a monolith today, is a bit taboo. It is all about microservices at the moment, and has been for a few years. But they aren’t a silver bullet…
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Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
Implementing the execution functionality of the shell
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Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer
Trying out the Rust programming ecosystem as a 10+ years Python developer. How to do common programming tasks and how the tooling looks like.
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Why does zsh start so slowly?
I’m serious about shell startup speed. I use tmux to open and close tmux splits all day every day, so I need zsh to start quickly. I used to use frameworks like oh-my-zsh or prezto and while I was happy with the functionality they provided I wasn’t happy with their impact on my shell’s startup speed. So, what do we do…
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Bevy 0.9: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 159 contributors, 430 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.9 release on crates.io…
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#lang Lua
I'm currently working on a macOS app that's built with Racket and allows the user to write small scripts to process and filter some data. While Racket is definitely my preferred language and I could easily use it for these scripts, my target audience for this app would probably appreciate a more familiar language. I…
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Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days
A debugging story about a mysterious C# gzip decompression exception and what actually caused it, with investigation steps and lessons learned.
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Sublime Text 4 Build 4142
Sublime Text 4, build 4142 is out now with new features, performance improvements and bug fixes.
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How stdbuf works
Harry Marr — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Co-founded Dependabot, previously at GitHub, Monzo, and GoCardless.
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The one about Lisp interactivity
Lisp REPLs are on the collective lips of the WWW lately and so I thought I’d add my little bit of chatter to the mix as well. 1
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A cost model for Nim
This blog post is the beginning of a cost model for the implementation that is available via `Nim devel` aka Nim version 2.
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Thirteen Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size
Examining why some popular iOS apps suddenly got bigger after releasing with Xcode 14.
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Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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Python Asyncio
Asynchronous programming is a popular programming paradigm that allows a large number of lightweight tasks to run concurrently with very little memory overhead, compared to threads.
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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
For web automation/testing, Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. My problem with it has been: It's good enough, but nothing more. It doesn't work that well with modern, Javascript framework heavy sites (Angular, React
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Building a semantic search engine in Rust
If you're interested in building a semantic search engine in Rust, this article will show you how! We'll cover building a basic engine using sentence transformers and a kd-tree.
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Idiot Proof Git
Aliases, etc that have made rebase-based workflows in Git much less advanced feeling.
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A guide to error handling in Rust
The first half introduces Rust’s language features and libraries for error handling. The second half should help you write good error handling code in Rust.
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It's not Ruby that's slow, it's your database
Many people keep repeating that Ruby is slow. It is. But that doesn't matter, because your database is so much slower that it is the bottleneck. So, an alternative title would be "Ruby is slow, but that doesn't matter for you."
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Only solve one new problem at a time
Ben Nadel discusses one of the lessons learned from 10 years of CodePen: solve only problem at a time - a message worth amplifying.
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Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy
Wikipedia cites a few different sources on what “Unix Philosophy” is. Peter Salus summarizes it as:
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.NET 7 is Available Today
.NET 7 is a major release that provides better performance and new features for C#, .NET MAUI, Web APIs, cloud native, and more. Free Download.