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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
Matyáš Racek's blog
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,823 posts.
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Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast, and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial and…
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I Don't Know Swift
I know a thing or two about Objective-C. It’s not bragging. If you’re reading my blog, there’s a decent chance that I know more about Objective-C …
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Year 2038 problem is still alive and well
Largely because of a single code snippet used by many.
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Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
Repeatedly reaching for your mouse slows you down in the short term, and in the long term brings on health problems (RSI). To stay fast and healthy...
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A bug in GCC that may cause memory leaks in valid C++ programs
This post is to inform you about a bug in GCC that may cause memory (or other resource) leaks in your valid C++ programs.
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Rust and C++ Interoperability
In this blog post, I want to explore both directions of integration between Rust and C++ and present some tools we use in Slint.
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Swift Package Index joins Apple
Swift Package Index is now part of Apple. Here's what that means.
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Run your own OAuth2 server
Run a free OAuth2 Server and OpenID Connect (OIDC) server using open source software in under 10 minutes, and become an OAuth2 provider like Google.
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Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5
Welcome back! In part 4 we went over the nitty-gritty of lambdas and how to store them, we explored the relation between the various C++ algorithms and containers, plus we took a stroll through some non-standard containers with exceptional capabilities. Note: part 1 is here. In this probably final part 5, we’ll be…
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
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Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
After rewriting just a few of the slow methods for my Rails site in Rust
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How to Animate Multiplayer Cursors
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real‑world conditions are taken into account—here's a quick introduction to a few different methods, plus some React snippets.
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Usability Improvements in GCC 9
The upcoming GCC 9 release will have improved diagnostic messages, simpler C++ errors, more accurate error location reporting, and optional machine readable output for developer tools.
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Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful
Script-injected scripts block on CSS and delay script execution. Their era has passed, and we now have a much better, cleaner, and faster solution: add an async attribute to your script tags.
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Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
I am now officially part of the "previous" generation of programmers. I know this because the new generation no longer has "vi vs. emacs" e...
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WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
Steve Sanderson's Blog
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Fortran on WebAssembly
Patching LLVM Flang to output WebAssembly objects.
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The reverts will continue until morale improves
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been…
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GCC 8.1 Released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.
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Daala progress update
Daala is a next-next-generation video codec being developed at Mozilla Research and Xiph.Org . The aim is not only to create a better video codec, but to create one that is a royalty-free open standard that can serve as the backbone technology for video on the internet.
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Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle
I recently jailbroke my 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite. While my motivation probably should have been "breaking free from Amazon's clammy and tightening grip", the truth is I wanted a way to use it as a clock on my nightstand. I found this project and figured I could just make some adjustments to the code. And that…
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