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GitLab 13.0
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,820 posts.
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Git Diagramming "The Weave"
We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”:
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Type system updates: moving from research into development
A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.
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Beating TimSort at Merging
Learn how to beat TimSort at merging sorted lists in Python by creating a C extension. Discover the performance advantages of merging lists compare...
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How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch
Learn how asyncio works by recreating it from scratch with Python generators and using the __await__ dunder method for the async/await keywords.
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The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained
On your Python learning journey, you may have heard that a great way to get better is to read code written by other people. That's true, but finding good code to study is not easy, mostly because the design philosophy and the reasoning behind the code are rarely documented. The Python standard library is special in…
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Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016)
If you prefer video over blog posts, here is my talk on this at GopherCon 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyuFeiG3Y60
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How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Jack Schultz's blog.
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Breaking homegrown crypto
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Fortunately, I don't squash my commits
The story of a bug, and how I addressed it.
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The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons. Our add-on ecosystem has evolved through incremental, organic growth over the years, but there are some modernizations to Firefox ...
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Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
Discover Twilio’s shift to a single powerful service! Learn cloud communication trends, customer success stories, and how to build scalable apps. Join now!
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Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
Kubernetes is the 800-pound gorilla of container orchestration. It powers some of the biggest deployments worldwide, but it comes with a price tag...
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Moving Away from UUIDs (2018)
If you need an unguessable random string (for a session cookie or access token, for example), it can be tempting to reach for a random UUID, which looks like this: 88cf3e49-e28e-4c0e-b95f-6a68a785a…
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Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server
Kubernetes and related technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Istio, provide the non-functional requirements that used to be part of an application server and the additional capabilities
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How I'm Productive with Claude Code
It’s been about 6 weeks since I joined Tano, and this is what my commit history looks like:
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Collapse OS – Why Forth?
Collapse OS' first incarnation was written in Z80 assembler. One of the first feedbacks I had after it went viral was "why not Forth?". I briefly looked at it and it didn't seem such a great choice at first, so I first dismissed it. Then, I had what alcoholics refer to as a "Moment of clarity".
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Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
Learn to write and modify Zero Knowledge Proofs from scratch. You'll build a digital signature scheme using hash-based commitments, gaining practical ZKP programming skills and intuition along the way. By the end, you'll have all the tools you need to implement things like group signatures.
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Rules of optimization
Rules of optimization: 1) Design for performance from day 1 2) Profile often 3) Be vigilant on performance regressions 4) Understand the data 5) Understand the HW 6) Help the compiler 7) Verify your assumptions Performance is everyone's responsibility https://t.co/CwwJffnHGz
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Every Byte Matters
I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of each new field is rarely considered. Performance is often considered from a classic computer science perspective by considering asymptotic…
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Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads
Many seasoned engineers working in JVM based languages have seen errors like this: [error] (run-main-0) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) [error] at…
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Postgres is eating the database world
PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database…
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Announcing .NET Core 2.0
.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. […]
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Io_uring is not an event system
I’ve been hearing about io_uring on and off for the last couple of years. Its a relatively new technology in Linux to allow high-performance IO with very few overheads. Whenever its been mentioned, its usually been presented as a new alternative to select, poll and epoll. This led me to believe that it was just the…
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