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The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it
Learn why Linux binary compatibility breaks when shipping software and what developers can do to fix real-world build and deployment issues.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,828 posts.
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Highlights from Git 2.28
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
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Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack
Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.
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How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption
Carousel Apps was the company behind Watu, the application for temporary staffing agencies. It was co-founded by Julian Johnson and Pablo Fernandez. They both since have moved to other things. Julian is working on many projects, but his main one is improving education and quality of life for children in Africa which…
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Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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When static makes your C code 10 times faster
Addendum : Many Hacker News commenters correctly point out that the right way to indicate to the compiler that a value does not change is const . This post is not about C best practices, but just about how one can easily get to the bottom of this kind of surprising behavior by looking at the compiler output. This…
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How quickly can you remove spaces from a string?
Sometimes programmers want to prune out characters from a string of characters. For example, maybe you want to remove all line-ending characters from a piece of text. Let me consider the problem where I want to remove all spaces (' ') and linefeed characters ('\n' and '\r'). How would you do it efficiently? size_t…
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Finally getting two's complement
A different view on two's complement math.
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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
tazjin's blog
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GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation .
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Racket v8.5
Racket version 8.5 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. As of this release: Racket's new `-y` flag automatically keeps compiled files up to date, reducing subsequent load times. Error-message realms allow Racket-hosted langua...
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My Python testing style guide (2017)
This post is an attempt to catalog some of my practices around testing Python projects. It's not meant to be treated as dogma- I anticipate I'll update this significantly over time.
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A Local-First Case Study
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.
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How to use Elm at work
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
Exploring how to use 2D graphics in various desktop operating systems, the old-school way. In this part we learn how to create an empty window under Linux, macOS and Windows.
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Conrod – A Rust GUI Library
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
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Debugging in the Multiverse
Would figuring out your bugs and outages be easier if you had a time machine? We are now making a time machine directly available to all of our customers.
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Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules...
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Let's Build an MP3 Decoder
Even though MP3 is probably the single most well known file format and codec on Earth, it’s not very well understood by most programmers – for many encoders/decoders is in the class of software “other people” write, like standard libraries or operating system kernels. This article will attempt to demystify the…
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What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software
A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.