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How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close. I am still at Mozilla, but I will be focusing on Firefox work for the foreseeable future.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
Download Image wallpapers and background images for FREE! 200 Image wallpapers in 1080P, 2K, 4K, 5K HD that fit all your devices!
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How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
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Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern
John Villasenor warns about the vulnerabilities of businesses and schools using one videoconferencing platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why OKRs might not work at your company
A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders
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The ProtonMail Android app is now open source
Our Proton Mail Android app is open source. We are committed to transparency and contributing to the open source and privacy tech community.
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Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
We have found that you could be leaking your Internet traffic when running Linux under WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
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Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
Say goodbye to Kafka ZooKeeper dependency! KIP-500 introduces a new way of storing data in Kafka itself, rather than in external systems such as ZooKeeper.
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The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
To survive in the big bad world of business, you need staying power. We wanted to know which businesses around the world have stood the test of time and were
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On WD Red NAS Drives
On WD Red NAS Drives - Data - Western Digital (WD) Corporate Blog
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Kafka Is Not a Database
Get insights on Materialize's latest updates & trends in streaming databases & data products.
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Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
Brave filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
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Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
How we reverse engineered Discord’s call protocol and found it being MITM-ed by Discord.
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Tables: Tracking work for teams
Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
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TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
Asana engineers are TypeScript fans, and we’ve learned a lot about where TypeScript shines and struggles. Here are 3 of our favorite TypeScript surprises.
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GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
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Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers and strategists. We build digital capability and software solutions for ambitious enterprises seeking sustained business impact. We love what we do.
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Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith
It’s been 18 months since we talked about our Rails modular monolith. We lay out the current state of the work, and things we’d do differently if we started again.
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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.
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Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
The global team will investigate crimes and bring legal action against counterfeiters to protect our customers and brands.
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My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle shares his thoughts about how libraries have been bringing older books to digital learners and the lawsuit trying to stop it.
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here.
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Netflix now supports TLS 1.3
By Sekwon Choi
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The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
Editor’s preface: When I first joined Dropbox in May 2017, we were at the tail end of our CoffeeScript to TypeScript migration. If you wanted to make changes to a CoffeeScript file, it was considered common courtesy to convert it to TypeScript while you were at it. Parts of our codebase were still using…
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Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.
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