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The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
disclaimer: this is a technical post aimed at developers being somewhat aware of the problem space. There will be a concluding ‘the day of…’ post aimed at end users where some of …
Grunt 1.0.0 released
This release is made possible by @shama , @vladikoff , @jkaussieskater , @dmethvin .
Balancing “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vs. “Release early and often”
Embrace innovation with Red Hat's cloud solutions for enterprise-wide automation
WebAssembly, an executable format for the web
Le blog d'OCTO Technology, cabinet de conseil et de réalisation IT
Announcing gopass – A 'pass' compatible password manager for teams
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager
Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine
A new search engine in 2024? Yes, but stateless — index on S3, serverless — no cluster state, with all Lucene features — filters, autocomplete, facets. And also with local embedding & RAG inference.
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1
Today is a big day for us – IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1, our first release of the year, is available! Download it from our website or using the Toolbox App. You can also upgrade from inside the IDE or use sn
The Next Five Years of ClojureScript
I delivered a talk at the well attended ClojuTRE conference in Tampere, Finland this past September titled "The Next Five Years of ClojureScript". The Clojur...
Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released
August 27th marks five years since diaspora*, the open, privacy-oriented social network, was placed into the hands of its community by its founders. One year ago the community released diaspora* version 0.6, the result of a huge effort of refactoring the old code to make it perform better, as well as redesigning…
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...
A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.
Security releases issued
Posted by James Bennett on Feb. 19, 2013
RethinkDB 1.8: date support, querying nested objects, 8x disk usage improvements
Michael Lucy ( @mlucy ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this two-minute video:
Docker 0.9: introducing execution drivers and libcontainer
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Python's many command-line utilities
Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.
Ruby on Rails load testing habits
Here are the techniques I've acquired over more than 10 years of regular load testing.
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
TypeScript 4.0
Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.0! This version of the language represents our next generation of TypeScript releases,
A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.
TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
An in-depth technical analysis of TigerBeetle's core architecture, exploring how static memory allocation, zero-copy io uring interfaces, and Zig-based…