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SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations
South Park AI is an example of how to generate high-quality episodic content through the use of showrunner agents in the simulation. #AI #simulation #multi-agent
The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
Two architectures for running agent harnesses, the tradeoffs between them, and how we make skills and memories work when the harness isn't local.
Crystal 1.22
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.22.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Pillow-SIMD – Fast, production-ready image resize for x86
Learn how Uploadcare engineers found out how to resize images on Intel processors faster than Intel itself
How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
Since the start of the year, the AWS Rust team has been drafting our charter and tenets. Charters and tenets are the framework AWS teams use to define our scope and priorities. The charter tells you what the team does, and the tenets tell you how the team will do it. Since one of our […]
Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
Vert.x | Reactive applications on the JVM
µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
Over the past month, I've implemented from scratch a clean-room version of the UBSan runtime. The initial motivation was the need of developing one for the purposes of catching undefined behavior reports (unspecified code semantics in a compiled executable) in the NetBSD kernel. However, since we need to write a new…
A principled approach to system design and programming
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
Crash course to Amiga assembly programming
Updated May 10, 2021: Hey there friend! This ever-green blog is gold – just like reaktorians. If you’re reading this, you might be one of us. The30th
Supabase Local Dev: migrations, branching, and observability
New features to streamline the interaction between CLI, code editors, and remote databases.
Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
What do you see when you look at this picture? You might simply see an animal. Maybe you see a pet, a dog, or a Golden Retriever. The association between the image and these labels is not hard-wired in to your brain. Instead, you learned the labels after seeing hundreds or thousands of examples. Operating […]
SQL Tricks
Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…
The $10m Engineering Problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Gleam v1.7
News post: Gleam v1.7.0 released
No code reviews by default
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
What I'd like to see in Emacs
For context, we will first play Richard Stallman's 2014 TEDx talk called "Free Software, Free Society." The TEDx talk is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - No Derivative Works 3.0 license. Afterwards, Richard Stallman will discuss what he believes will be good ways to improve Emacs. The EmacsConf talk…
Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding
Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval
Today we're introducing Refact LLM: 1.6B code model with infill real-time code completion (including fill-in-the-middle(FIM) capability) and chat.