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Implementing Vertical Form Controls
Safari 17.4 adds vertical writing mode support for form control elements across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
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Light Table 0.6.6
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:
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Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp
By Robert Smith, Elias Lawson-Fox, Cole Scott Updated July 1, 2025 by Robert Smith. Introduction Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp. We can load it like a normal Lisp library. CL-USER> (asdf:load-system "coalton") CL-USER> (in-package #:coalton-user) COALTON-USER> This…
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Crystal 0.28.0 Released
Crystal 0.28.0 has been released!
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for…
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PyPy 1.8 - business as usual
We're pleased to announce the 1.8 release of PyPy. As habitual this release brings a lot of bugfixes, together with performance and memory i...
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GCC 13 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 13. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 13 page and the full GCC documentation .
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How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
How we built language server protocol (LSP) support for the Oso VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly (Wasm), and TypeScript
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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
Research programming language for concurrent ownership
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Are arrays functions?
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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JetBrains C++ IDE: Status update and Video report
Update: Cross-platform C/C++ IDE goes public as CLion!We know many of you are waiting for a cross-platform C++ IDE we announced some time ago, as we've received quite a few applications for a priv
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There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
The abstract for article “ The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection ” paints this picture for the reader…
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A case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs
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Guide to Serverless Architecture
Serverless architecture is a cloud-based development model in which the cloud provider manages the servers and the developer only needs to focus on the code.
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Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++
Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board Back in 2021, we announced...
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WTF is a KDF?
Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
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Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)
The vulnerabilities we found in Cloudflare's CIRCL FourQ implementation: invalid-point attacks, Edwards-curve edge cases, and the disclosure that fixed them.
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Elm from a Business Perspective
Elm is not just technically great, it also allows building business around it
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An even slimmer pdf.js
TL;DR: Firefox’s built-in PDF viewer is on track to benefit from additional large reductions in memory consumption when Firefox 33 is released in mid-October.
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Read Couchbase engineering tutorials, product news, and customer stories on AI agents, Capella, vector search, mobile sync, and real-time analytics.
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SQLite Archive Files (2018)
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database.
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Fixing Gemma Bugs
Unsloth fixing Google's open-source language model Gemma.
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?