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Things I like about Gleam's Syntax
Gleam is a Type-Safe programming language that transpiles to Erlang And javascript . , so you can run its code on the BEAM. I’ve slept on Gleam for a while because its syntax. It was too much Rust and not enough Elixir for me.
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Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan
Please don't roll your big bags around town
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Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron
Since pg_cron 1.5, you can easily schedule jobs that run every 1-59 seconds. And pg_cron 1.6 added support for Postgres 16. This blog post walks you through the benefits of second granularity jobs with the pg_cron open source extension to Postgres.
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Next.js 14
Next.js 14 includes included performance, stability for Server Actions, a new course teaching the App Router, and more.
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How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
Biologist’s innovative research on how cells rebuild themselves could be the future of regenerative medicine
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EU parliament agreement to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption
This week, the European Parliament's negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill. The Commission’s bill proposes bulk scanning and reporting of private messages for allegedly suspicious content by using error-prone algorithms,
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After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet
After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet... but we're getting there, Author: Jan Kopriva
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Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested
The tropical wood type ipê is popular for building exclusive wooden decks, and in North America and Europe, the demand for the material has increased sharply. Now, a study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that more than three-quarters of all ipê from the top producing region in Brazil could have…
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Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
This article is an excerpt of my new book Cloudflare for Speed and Security where you will learn, among other things, how networking works in order to create fast, secure and scalable applications. If you are not overspending on compute (like many companies do because of "scale") then your biggest
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The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
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Lindenmayer Systems
Originally developed by Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968, an L-System is a formalism to generate self-similar structures. Although, L-Systems are capable of generating famous fractals like the Sierpinski Triangle (Axiom: FXF--FF--FF, F → FF , X → --FXF++FXF++FXF-- , angle = 60 ) or the Gosper Curve (Axiom: FX, X →…
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
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Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.
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Why every microwave sucks these days
if you're lucky, you haven't. you're still using a microwave from the 1990's or something like that, and it still works just fine. after all, how can a microwave be made any better? you put stuff in, and the water in the stuff heats up. there really isn't much innovation to be done that wasn't already done half a…
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Was Rust Worth It?
From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.
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How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
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I Won't Use Next.js
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
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Keyboard Maestro 11
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
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Helix 23.10 Highlights
A post-modern modal text editor.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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The Case of a Curious SQL Query
Languages that suffer success often have to do so by selling out and adding features that go against some of the original purposes of their design. SQL is a...
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I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…
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Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
Learn from UC Davis researchers how adding crushed volcanic rock to farmland removes carbon dioxide from the air.
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Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
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Unpacking Elixir: Observability
Elixir supports the usual supects of observability. Open Telemetry (OTel), log handlers, capturing metrics. And it does it well. This post will mostly focus on the observability you have on the BEAM that is either incredibly rare to see elsewhere or possibly entirely unique.
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Advice to a novice programmer
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus