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Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Nov. 22, 2021
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First stage POWER9 Firefox JIT passes tests
Yeah, so about that OpenPOWER Minimum Viable Product JavaScript JIT for Firefox. This happened (all timings from an unoptimized debug build ...
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I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)
How I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions
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Functorio
You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …
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Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find
Git ls-files is up to 5 times faster than fd or find in this benchmark, but why?
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Native-like Navigation of Web apps
Native-like Navigation for Web apps
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.NET 6 vs .NET 5 speedup
A year ago I wrote a post comparing .NET 5 performance with its predecessor on Fusion performance tests, and honestly, I was quite…
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Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins
List of all the plugins I use in PyCharm and Idea.
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Notes on Software Development Waste
Sedano et al (2017)[1] on "Software Development Waste" identified and describe that software projects manifest nine possible types of waste, in terms of loss of productivity and unnecessary friction.
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One of these JPEGs is not like the other
“JPEG” or the image encoding specification by the “Joint Photographic Experts Group” (JPEG) is a truly universal format at this stage. You really cannot go very far on the internet without seeing a JPEG file. The amount of content encoded in JPEGs must be surely biblical by now. If there is one thing that is going to…
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TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
Introducing TensorFlow GNN, a library to build Graph Neural Networks on the TensorFlow platform.
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
Supply chains attacks are all the rage these days, whether to deliver RATs, cryptocurrencies miners, or credential stealers. In Rust, packages are called crates and are (most of the time) hosted on a central repository: https://crates.io for better discoverability. We are going to study 8 techniques to achieve Remote…
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Learning containers from the bottom up
What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?
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IRCv3 Spec round-up
IRCv3 Development Community
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Power Fx: open-source now available
The preview release of Microsoft Power Fx is now available as open source on GitHub You can now freely integrate this Excel-like, low code programming language in all of your own projects.
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Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
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Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column
This is a little sed challenge that ocurred to me somewhat recently, when I wondered how many weeks were between 2 dates. Of course, I just looked at the calendar and counted, but then I wondered what kind of sed script I’d need in the middle of a cal -y | ... | wc -l pipeline to get the same answer.
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Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
This is a followup to my previous post, prefix sum on Vulkan. Last year, I got a fancy algorithm for this problem running well on one device. This time, I will dive into the question of how to make it work well across a wide range of devices. The short answer is, it can be made to work pretty portably on Vulkan and…
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
We're sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.
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Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript
Over the past few years, Etsy’s Web Platform team has spent a lot of time bringing our frontend code up to date. It was only...
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Why Emacs: Redux
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
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T-Wand: beating Lucene in less than 600 lines of code
The design of Datalevin's compact Clojure search engine, its T-Wand algorithm, and the full-text search benchmarks comparing it with Apache Lucene.
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How to Write a Computer Emulator
I wrote this document after receiving large amounts of email from people who would like to write an emulator of one or another computer but do not know where to start. Any opinions and advices contained in the following text are mine alone and should not be taken for an absolute truth. The document mainly covers…