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Ghost 1.0
About four years ago we launched Ghost on Kickstarter as a tiny little prototype of an idea to create the web's next great open source blogging platform. In the early days we really just focused on just making everything work. Ghost was one of the very first open source
Haiku booting in UEFI mode
As some may have noticed, my UEFI branch got merged in November, purely by accident too! However, until now, we still haven't been able to boot to the desktop. Whilst still in development, the addition of a simple framebuffer driver and a crucial fix …
GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
How close to zero can you get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? A bootstrapper-friendly setup for under €10 a month.
Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
Small software teams are dramatically more cost efficient than large teams. Large teams don't even confer much calendar time advantage over small teams.
Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023
On 4 October 2023, Cloudflare experienced DNS resolution problems. Some users may have received SERVFAIL DNS responses to valid queries. In this blog, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again
Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3
Gemma 3, Google's new multimodal models. Fine-tune & Run them with Unsloth! Gemma 3 comes in 1B, 4B, 12B and 27B sizes.
A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
Withdrawing from the Microsoft MVP Program
When I was first named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, back in the early 2000’s, I was very proud. Really, I was. There was a cohort of smart, generous, and engaged engineers who were…
30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records
Find out more about the biggest 2017 data breaches in this MacKeeper report!
Hello Lua
Haxe 3.3 introduces a powerful and flexible new Lua target. Here's how to get started with it.
Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type
We have completely rewritten the string/binary data structure we use in Polars.
Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time
This simulation shows the heat transfer throughout various kinds of meat. In the first section, you can input the starting values for the meat. The default is a 3cm piece of steak at room temperature (73°F or 23°C). The maximum meat thickness is 30 cm since we are assuming you're not trying to cook a whole cow. The…
An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
What are deterministic builds?
A new generation of Tailscale access controls
Grants are Tailscale’s next generation of access controls that combine network and application capabilities into a single syntax.
Hacking with environment variables
How malicious environment variables can trick scripting language interpreters into executing arbitrary commands, a Linux exploitation technique.
App Container and Docker
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
600 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
WebVM, our virtual Linux environment running fully client-side in the browser, now supports networking via Tailscale.
A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data.
FunctionGemma 270M Model
FunctionGemma is a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model fine-tuned for function calling.