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Locking in WebKit
We recently replaced all spinlocks, OS-provided mutexes, and condition variables in WebKit with the new WTF::Lock and WTF::Condition — these new primitives have some cool properties.
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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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Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
When using the Java programming language, one of the most common pitfalls is trying to access a member of a null reference, causing a NullPointerException to be thrown. Kotlin offers protection against this by baking nullable and non-nullable types into the type system. This helps eliminate NullPointerExceptions from…
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Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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A REST View of GraphQL
In this article, we will talk about: What does the REST architectural style mean? What is GraphQL? What problems does it solve? How is GraphQL incompatible with REST?
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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Io_submit and Linux AIO – An epoll alternative
The Linux AIO is designed for, well, Asynchronous disk IO! They are not network sockets, but is it possible to use Linux AIO API with network sockets? The answer is a strong YES!
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Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
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Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License
Dear Google, There has been quite a bit of news lately that you have applied for a patent on bill splitting. It's a helpful tool—we've all been to restaurants or lived with housemates and have needed a convenient way of calculating and tracking who owes what. But this technology already exists—and...
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Enlightenment 0.26
This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.
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Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard
The drivetrain, like the motor controller, has evolved extensively since the boards we built before Kickstarter. We’re going to take you through some of the principles and constraints that have...
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Rust Threads on the GPU
At VectorWare , we are building the first GPU-native software company . Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's std::thread on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that leverage the full…
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Minimum Viable Declarative GUI in C++
Techniques for defining a declarative GUI in C++
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Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open
What languages do you want to work with next year? Are you more productive in an office or working from home? When did you write your first line of code? We want to hear from you in our annual developer survey ! The survey, now in its ninth year, launches today and anyone who codes is encouraged to participate. Take…
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I Won't Use Next.js
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
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Towards Crystal 1.0
Currently the main goal of the Crystal core team is to reach 1.0 in the near future. Since achieving that goal involves a number of non-obvious tradeoffs, we want to use this post to shed some light on those inherent tensions and how they drive our work and priorities for the next few releases.
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The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
This blog post shows you how to use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands.
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Static checking of units in Servo
Web browsers do a lot of calculations on geometric coordinates, in many different coordinate systems and units of measurement. For example, a browser may need to translate a position expressed ...
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Box86/Box64 vs. QEMU vs. FEX (Vs Rosetta2)
Comparing performances I decided to compare the performances of the OpenSource Linux Userspace Emulator that allows you to run x86/x86_64 apps on ARM linux. There are QEMU-user, FEX-emu and Box86/Box64. How to bench Linux userspace emulator Test will consist of the bench I already used a couple of time, and that can…
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Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
What if you could reboot an entire server in seconds in response to an active attack and get a brand new memory layout? While not feasible under linux it's an uniquely unikernel feature.
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How to build a JavaScript package manager
Hello everyone! Today, we’re gonna write a new package manager, even better than Yarn! Ok, maybe not, but at least we’re gonna have some fun, learn how packa...