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A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.
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A Decade of Slug
What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception. I published a paper in JCGT about the technique in the middle of 2017, and my company sold the first license for version 1.0 of the…
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Java 26 is here
Java 26 is here, and its main purpose seems to be to provide a solid foundation for future things to come. It comes with a few new features, some performance improvements and multiple enhancements that mention Project Valhalla as the inspiration for their existence. This post has all the info!
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Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track
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Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox
Today we are incredibly excited to open source [Edge\.js](<https://edgejs.org/>), a JavaScript runtime specifically designed to safely run Node.js workl...
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If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy…
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Node.js needs a virtual file system
Node.js now has a virtual filesystem. Learn why VFS matters for testing, sandboxing, Single Executable Apps, and running generated code directly in me
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VisiCalc Reconstructed
Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work.
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Building a Shell
I built a tiny shell in C to learn what fork, execvp, and dup2 are doing under the hood.
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Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
Software engineer, Warsaw.
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
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Even faster asin() was staring right at me
I don't normally do follow-ups and never this quick. After posting that last article, it was fun to read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News as they rolled in. I even found other discussions . I couldn't help wonder, "Could I have made it even more performant?" . After heading home I decided to take another look.
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Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
Learn what it means to conform to the Python typing spec, why it matters, and the conformance status of each type checker including Pyrefly, Ty, Pyright and Mypy.
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What is agentic engineering?
What is agentic engineering? - Agentic Engineering Patterns
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LLM Architecture Gallery
A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.
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The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I spent 100 hours vibecoding an app and it's not as simple as people say.
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SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads
A draft design document describing lightweight userland cooperative threads for SBCL.
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MCP is dead; long live MCP
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
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It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
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An ode to bzip
The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing code instead of having fun. Computers have limited disk space, and my /nix folder is growing out of control, so I need to…
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AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
AI tools lower the barrier to producing code, not to building reliable systems. The hard part — maintaining alignment between specifications, tests, and implementation — has not gone away. Expertise still matters.
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XML is a cheap DSL
Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
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Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)
101 interactive pandas exercises with solutions. Edit and run every code block directly in your browser — no installation needed.
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The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer
Multiplayer has been the single most requested feature for Teardown ever since before its initial release. Synchronizing physics over the network is already known to be hard, and on top of that we have a completely dynamic, destructible world with full modding support. For a long time, we considered the whole idea…
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Vite 8.0 Is Out
Vite 8 Release Announcement
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Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
In part 1 of this series , we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs ) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live…
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Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices
We’re excited to announce that Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026, following the successful expansion of Chrome to Arm-powered macOS devices in…
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Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu
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