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Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
I’m excited to share swift-playdate-examples, a technical demonstration of using Swift to build games for Playdate, a handheld game system by Panic.
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I'm giving up on open source
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
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Bluesky adds direct messages
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
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’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.
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Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
Enable Docker layer caching with cache-from and cache-to using GitHub's cache or registry cache for faster CI builds.
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LXQt 2.0.0
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
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A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
Guide to PostgreSQL Replication and CDC - Navigate the complexities of logical replication in PostgreSQL.
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FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention
In theory, Attention is All You Need. In practice, however, we also need optimized attention implementations like FlashAttention. Although these fused attention implementations have substantially improved performance and enabled long...
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A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase
Converting character by character isn't good enough any more.
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Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
Market highlights and explanations from a day of records in ERCOT.
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Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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34x34x34 Rubik's Cube
A 34x34x34 cube has become the highest-order NxNxN Rubik's Cube, announced Matt Bahner in a YouTube video. Soon, he will publish a full documentary about how he made it.
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The software you need for holiday overdecoration
How EZRGB uses DBOS durable workflows to power EZ Sequence, its software for animated, computer-controlled holiday light shows.
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Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
Updates & fixes, dev contributors, and the new COSMIC App Store.
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CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
A vulnerability in PDF.js found by Codean Labs. PDF.js is a JavaScript-based PDF viewer maintained by Mozilla. This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened. This affects all Firefox users (
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Loro's rich text CRDT
This article presents the rich text CRDT algorithm implemented in Loro, complying with Peritext's criteria for seamless rich text collaboration. Furthermore, it can be built on top of any List CRDT algorithms and turn them into rich text CRDTs.
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Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
The work could help efforts to contain an important source of air pollution
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Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem
CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.
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Prometheus 3.0
An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
Curious about living in Japan? Learn from Christian, one of the first digital nomad visa holders, as he shares his experience and tips for obtaining the visa.
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New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor
In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune…
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Pack: A new container format for compressed files
The most efficient way to pack files.
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Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast
The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. The threat is clear.
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The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
A personal perspective on the complex role English plays in Japan.
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Why Are Sloths So Slow?
What does it really mean to be a sloth? Why are they so slow? And why does it work?
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Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
Understand .NET 9.0 LINQ performance improvements, faster iterator and the usage of Span
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The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
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Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Interact with tables and charts and add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.