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A new algorithm for smoother 360 video viewing
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Interpreting Analog Sticks
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Data Wrangling at Slack
For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential. The Data Engineering team at Slack works to provide an ecosystem to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage, so they can make better and data informed…
Two Years Open Source
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
“Scientific Method for Startups”, and AMA with Michael Seibel
When people discuss startups they tend to talk about inspiration and creativity. This leads founders to believe they can imagineer a solution to any problem they’re trying to solve. In reality, executing a startup is a balance between creativity/intuition/instinct and the scientific method: hypothesize > a/b test >…
Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
We are deeply saddened by the news that our member, colleague, and friend Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away.
Consul 0.7
We are excited to release Consul 0.7, a major update with many new features and improvements. This release focused on making it easier to operate Consul clusters, and built key foundations for continued operational improvements in future releases. Consul is a modern datacenter runtime that provides service discovery…
Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9
The Java programming language is one of the most popular languages today. Stay up to date with news, certifications, free learning resources, Java Magazine, events and much more
Denser 3D Point Clouds in OpenSfM
We've improved OpenSfM—the technology we use to create 3D reconstructions from images. By adding post-processing, we get denser 3D point clouds resulting in better visualization, positioning, and much more.
KDevelop 5.0.0 release
Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0. KDevelop is an integrated development environment focusing on support of the C++, Python, PHP and JavaScript/QML programming languages. Many important changes and refactorings were done for version…
Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database
Digital Democracy is now Awana Digital
Apple celebrates one billion iPhones
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced the company sold its billionth iPhone when speaking at an employee meeting in Cupertino.
98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6
It's 2016 and almost every site using Cloudflare (more than 4 million of them) is using IPv6. Cloudflare sees significant IPv6 traffic globally where networks have enabled IPv6 to the consumer.
Django CMS version 3.3 has been released
The new django CMS 3.3 offers an enhanced user experience, improved stability and faster performance throughout, making it a strongly recommended upgrade for all projects.