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We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and halving build delay.
Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
Obama’s position on encryption is now public, as reported by the Washington Post. According to Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson of the Post, Obama “will not —for now—call for legislation requiring companies to decode messages for law enforcement.” Instead, the Post reports, the “administration...
Keyboard Maestro 11
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
Stripe: Alipay support
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Create React App 2.0 has been released today, and it brings a year’s worth of improvements in a single dependency update. While React itself doesn’t require any build dependencies, it can be challenging to write a complex app without a…
Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave.
Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
We are so happy to announce that after 6 months some 1.5K+ commits, we are ready to show you a preview of Nyxt 3! As always, there's a lot of new features (bugs), so your feedback is critical!
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Announcing RStudio v1.0
Today we’re very pleased to announce the availability of RStudio Version 1.0! Version 1.0 is our 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011 (see the full release history below), and our biggest ever! Highlights include:
Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button
Menu simulation V453000 In the last FFF, we presented that we now have the capability to show real game simulations in the Tips and tricks. Naturally we asked ourselves what else could we use this new technology for... We've dreamed about this multiple times in the past, but the technical roadblocks didn't make us…
Introducing Rec Room
It's no secret that the best frameworks and tools are extracted, not created out of thin air. Since launching Firefox OS, Mozilla has been approached by countless app developers and ...
Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
What Is a Knowledge Graph?
What is a knowledge graph? Learn about nodes, relationships, organizing principles, and ontologies, which comprise a knowledge graph.
TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees
In December 2023, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) withdrew its support for SUNY-ESF’s Darling transgenic chestnut project. Since then, we’ve received questions about the decision and what’s next for the Darling line. We appreciate those questions because they indicate a deep interest in our mission and reflect…
How Passive Radar Works
Passive radar is radar that doesn't need a transmitter; it uses existing broadcasts of opportunity.
Firefox now only has one HTML parser
Strumenti e risorse per le nuove forme di comunicazione
Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML
Learn about SAML authentication and the mechanics behind some of the most common SAML use cases, all through the fictional BaaS (Beer-as-a-Service).
Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume
Want more interviews? The fast and easy way to revamp your resume and get noticed is to use CV Compiler.
Gmail: Drag and drop attachments onto messages
Posted by Adam de Boor, Software Engineer I'm always looking for ways to save time. Suppose I want to attach some files to an email, and I a...
So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
What is a deterministic hypervisor and why do we need one anyhow?
Origami-inspired soft artificial muscles
By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to bend and flex in ways that mimic and can interact more naturally with living organisms…