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Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. First, and most importantly: I was a primary operator of RubyGems.org, securely and successfully, for over ten years. Ruby…
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
Apple’s Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. The deeper failure is an industry shipping more software while producing fewer engineers capable of fixing it.
I always assumed that Python's str.splitlines() split strings by " universal newlines ", i.e., \n , \r , and \r\n .
Dear readers, we are extremely sad to inform you that Rainer passed away on October 6, 2025, surrounded by his closest family. After suffering from life-threatening pneumonia, Rainer decided against further life-sustaining measures that would have severely restricted his life. He passed away peacefully, accompanied by…
In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…
I’ve been trying to slowly ease into using LLMs for coding help again lately (after quitting ), but something always feels off -- like we’re not quite on the...
In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.com I spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with
The five most popular JS frameworks – Angular, React, Vue, Svelte and Blazor – use different rendering strategies, and it shows.
Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
Make Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most.
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
What is a Banana Curving Machine? Well it's a fantastic apparatus that does what it says. Curves Bananas.
A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.
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Learn to build plugins for ChatGPT and Codex with skills, MCP servers, and optional UI. Explore developer guides for authentication, testing, and publishing.
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the eas…
An opportunity for more opinionated defaults
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once—firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in …
Let's look at Vec<T> to get a better understanding of its inner structure.
False sharing, AoS vs SoA, random access, branch prediction: re-measured with go test -bench on two machines. Some claims held, some didn't.
tl/dr: it can deliver big performance speedups at modest area cost
At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming…
New context editing and memory tools enable Claude agents to handle long-running tasks without hitting context limits.
In this blog post, we walk through how to use Matrix Cores in HIP kernels, with a focus on low-precision data types such as FP16, FP8, and FP4, as well as the new family of Matrix Core instructions with exponent block scaling introduced in the AMD CDNA™4 architecture. Through code examples and illustrations, we…
A friend called me last week. Someone who’d built web applications back for a long time before moving exclusively to backend and infra work. He’d just opened a modern React codebase for the first time in over a decade.
Andrew Kelley famously (or infamously, depending on your views) said "the compiler is too damn slow, that's why we have bugs." 1
At one level, this question is not very fair, because an answer to it as stated would be that one simply does not use doubly linked lists. They have been popular in introductory computer science lectures because they are a neat way to explain pointers in a data structure that's easy to draw on a whiteboard, but they…
Correctness in the face of cancellations: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2025.
