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Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
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A ChatGPT Emacs Shell
UPDATE: has evolved a bit and is now on MELPA. I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a good try, preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT seemed ...
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Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
In this article, previously part of my new book, we look at the introduction of .NET Core, why it was created, and how it has evolved into .NET 7.
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So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can …
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Java 20 Is Out!
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 20 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 395 in the Java Community Process.
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Curl 8.0.1
Right. I said in the 8.0.0 blog post that it might be a good release. It was. Apart form the little bug that caused it to crash in several test cases. So now we shipped curl 8.0.1, which is almost identical apart from a single commit that was reverted. Exactly why this was not discovered … Continue reading curl 8.0.1…
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Why use Rust on the back end?
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
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A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
wingolog: article: a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us
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Gitea 1.19
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0. We highly encourage users to update to this version for many new features and other improvements. We have merged 544 https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A1.19.0+is%3Amerged pull requests to rele
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Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.
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Curl 8.0.0
Exactly one month since the previous release, we are happy to give you curl 8.0.0 released on curl's official 25th birthday. This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly…
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Prompt Engineering: Steer a large pretrained language model to do what you want
Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring heavy…
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Twenty-five years of curl
Time flies when you are having fun. Today is curl's 25th birthday. The curl project started out very humbly as a small renamed URL transfer tool that almost nobody knew about for the first few years. It scratched a personal itch of mine, Me back then I made that first curl release and I've packaged … Continue reading…
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Bracketed paste mode (2013)
One of the least well known, and therefore least used, features of many terminal emulators is bracketed paste mode . When you are in bracketed paste mode and you paste into your terminal the content will be wrapped by the sequences \e[200~ and \e[201~ .
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The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
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a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick
Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
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Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
I’ve had the pleasure of having had to analyse multi-gigabyte JSON dumps in a project context recently. JSON itself is actually a rather pleasant format to consume, as it’s human-readable and there is a lot of tooling available for it. JQ allows expressing sophisticated processing steps in a single command line, and…
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How Async/Await Works in C#
Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
Hear from a Warp engineer why building a UI in Rust is challenging. Learn about innovative solutions and approaches to tackle its strict memory management and lack of inheritance.
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New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
React SPAs still matter: the new React docs push frameworks like Next.js, but dashboards behind a login need no SEO, and SSR adds server load.
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How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (2014)
Translations: Brazilo-Portuguese Chinese (Traditional) Czech Dutch Estonian French Georgian German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesion Japanese Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Ukrainian Uzbek If you want to copy, mirror, translate, or excerpt this document, please see my copying policy .
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Spelunking Apple’s Open Source
Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has complied with the licenses for the dozens of open source components it includes in the OS by posting (sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of the source code to its Open Source at Apple web page.This resource is useful primarily to developer
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Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
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Retiring a favourite C++ joke
I have a favourite joke when teaching new and delete in C++. Alas, I believe that attendees are now less likely to have seen the show it references. Therefore, I present it here for your enjoyment (or not).
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Introducing react.dev
The library for web and native user interfaces
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TypeScript 5.0
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler,