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Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
/ləʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The ability to adjust a user-interface to the user's local language or dialect Because I live in the UK, I speak en_GB (English, Great Britain) rather than en_US (English, Simplified United States). Mostly, all dialects of English are mutually intelligible. Sure, the Brits love the letter U and…
After a small delay * , the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1 , the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.
Cloudflare Analytics is a brand new player on the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative market. Here’s my Cloudflare Analytics review.
Published: 20-10-2020 | Last update: 28-02-2022 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Here’s an unavoidable fact: the software project you’re working on has some flaws that no one knows about. Not you, your users, nor anyone in your team. These could be anything from fau…
I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it.
Today the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that it unlawfully maintains monopolies through anticomp
Is there any command to see the history of a file beyond renames, similar to git log --follow <file> ?
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Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
In response to our Cloud Security Punch-Out! videos, Palo Alto Networks sent this cease and desist letter, demanding the comparison be removed. Here is my response.
I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family’s old home videos.
Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.
This PEP provides the motivation and rationale for PEP 634 (“Structural Pattern Matching: Specification”). First-time readers are encouraged to start with PEP 636, which provides a gentler introduction to the concepts, syntax and semantics of patterns.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
This PEP provides the technical specification for the match statement. It replaces PEP 622, which is hereby split in three parts:
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Why TOAST is the best thing since sliced bread
Today, we’re launching Pitch to the world. Learn how we’re modernizing presentation software to help teams stay connected and do their best work.
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc.
Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.
The European Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo has recently been suffering from frequent "almost disruptions", most likely partially due to Corona, and possibly also due to Brexit, but in any case due to some historical stinginess. Before I explain what is going on, I should hasten to say that most days of…
