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Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
Deep dive into Citus columnar storage for Postgres. Includes a quickstart, as well as performance measurements for data loading, compression ratios, and query response times. Also covers how columnar relates to Citus, integration with Postgres range partitioning, limitations, & ways to get started.
Ruby 3.1.0 Preview 1
Since Ruby 2.6 introduced MJIT in 2018 , its performance greatly improved, and finally we achieved Ruby3x3 last year . But even though Optcarrot has shown impressive speedups, the JIT hasn’t benefited real world business applications.
Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
JQuery 1.8 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
Apple today announced iOS 17, a major release that upgrades the communications experience across Phone, FaceTime, and Messages.
The Play Framework at LinkedIn
I’m excited to announce the next step in LinkedIn’s service infrastructure: the Play Framework. Play is a modern web framework that combines the performance and reliability of Java and Scala, the power of reactive programming, and the productivity of full hot reload support. We’ve been running Play
Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
Discover the bizarre world of INTERCAL, a parody programming language that will leave you scratching your head. Then, delve into the blurred line b...
Write documentation first, then build
The best way to build a great product is to write the whole idea out first.
Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
Discover the top PostgreSQL 19 features, including built-in REPACK CONCURRENTLY, SQL property graph queries (SQL/PGQ), and logical replication updates.
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” that shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days.
CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web
The heart of the new CKEditor Ecosystem is undoubtedly our brand new editor, CKEditor 5.
Linear types are merged in GHC
Looking back at the journey which brought us there, and forward to what still lies ahead.
Claude can sometimes prove it
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A New AWS SDK for Rust
We’re excited to announce the alpha release of a new AWS SDK for Rust. AWS customers developing in Rust want a native Rust SDK so they can use the language constructs they are used to, and customers new to Rust want an SDK that behaves similarly to SDKs they have used in other language environments. […]
Hanami 2.0
Hanami 2.0 opens a new chapter for the Ruby community.
Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
GCC 9.1 Released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
How attention sinks keep language models stable
We discovered why language models catastrophically fail on long conversations: when old tokens are removed to save memory, models produce complete gibberish. We found models dump massive attention onto the first few tokens as "attention sinks"—places to park unused attention since softmax requires weights to sum to 1…
Why Generics?
Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?
PyPI now supports digital attestations
Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
Arduino IDE 2.0
The most up-to-date version of the Arduino IDE. It provides a better overall user experience thanks to a responsive interface and faster compilation time.
New Ghostscript PDF interpreter
Details for Ghostscript's new PDF interpreter