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BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained
This article explains how BuildKit works in depth, why it's faster than Docker's previous build engine, and what it looks like under the hood.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,833 posts.
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Backbone patterns
Here, I try to document the good practices that our team has learned along the way building Backbone applications. This document assumes that you already have some knowledge of Backbone.js , jQuery , and of course, JavaScript itself.
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How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment by Liveblocks
Notoriously tough to build, undo/redo in a multiplayer environment is even more fraught with difficulty. In this article, we will take you on a behind-the-scenes exclusive, explaining one of the most complex developer issues for multiplayer apps.
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WebAssembly Is Not A Stack Machine
This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them.
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How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
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LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView
Debut of LiveBeats social music app.
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SMT Solving on an iPhone
Why buy an expensive desktop computer when your iPhone is a faster SMT solver?
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Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?
Recently, we began work on a binary static analysis tool. While reading some disassembly, we came across a weird-looking instruction, that was present in most everything we gave objdump .
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Nerd Sniped by BINFMT_MISC
How to script in any language thanks to rootless containers and BINFMT_MISC.
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Introducing PureScript Erlang back end
I’m not sure why I decided to create an Erlang backend for the PureScript compiler.The platform is somewhat interesting, but I didn’t know it, and I don’t ha...
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GitHub Actions: Organization secrets
You can now create organization secrets, reducing the need to duplicate secrets across repositories. Access policies let you control which repositories have access to the organization secret Updating a secret…
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Minimum Viable Phoenix
Let’s walk through the process of building a dead simple Phoenix application from the ground up.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022
Between 2016 and 2020 I wrote a series of blog posts called “How to speed up the Rust compiler”. These were mostly about my work on the Rust compiler, plus some updates on the progress on the Rust compiler’s speed in general.
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History of Apache Storm and Lessons Learned
Apache Storm recently became a top-level project , marking a huge milestone for the project and fo...
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Hypervisor 101 in Rust
This is a day long course to quickly learn the inner working of hypervisors and techniques to write them for high-performance fuzzing.
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Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler
This post describes some performance work I have been doing recently on rustc. I spent several weeks on a particular problem with only a small amount of success. I hope a write-up will be interesting and educational, and may even lead to suggestions that make things better. The post is aimed at readers with some…
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Parser Combinators in Elixir
Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.
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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Let’s start with a question! Is this program well-defined? 1 2 3 4 int main() { while (true) ; } If you said yes, you’d be wrong — at least before C++26. A while (true); loop with no side effects used to be undefined behaviour. Compilers were free to assume it terminates, and some — Clang in particular — would…
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Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
For enterprise software, the software supply chain presents some of the biggest risks today to data privacy and security.
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AI Is Making Developers Dumb
LLMs are making software engineers dumber.
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