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Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python…
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
Installing GNU Radio and receiving aircraft radar with a USB TV tuner.
Rust bindings for GTK and GLib-based libraries
Run, compile, and link C programs instantly with CJIT.
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
How should a fuzzer balance exploration and minimization? Samus has the answer.
PyPy 2.6.0 - Cameo Charm We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.6.0, only two months after PyPy 2.5.1. We are particulary happy to update cf...
How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. In this blog post, we'll go through its…
posted by Matthew Flatt with thanks to collaborators Kent Dybvig, Andy Keep, Gustavo Massaccesi, Sarah Spall, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Jon Zeppieri It's been almost a year since we decided to try running Racket on Chez Scheme, and it has been almost six ...
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
Access to technical interview practice matters more than raw technical ability, and without it, we won't fix representation in tech.
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js DX was just... bad. From my perspective, Next.js’ App Router…
Rust struct serialization problem caused by many nullable SQL columns.
This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years
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This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
