Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,819 posts.
For development teams, process can often be antithetical to speed. Ease of deployment and security tend to have an inverse relationship, with some resentment for the security team occasionally mixed in. You may have seen the following tweet: https://twitter.com/petecheslock/status/595617204273618944?lang=en We believe…
Detecting the Resonant Frequency of an Object with
What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast and performant as possible with Vue and webpack.
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
A dive into the mechanics that allow Postgres to provide strong atomic guarantees despite the chaotic entropy of production.
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982 Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale…
Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.
Today, as part of Mobile World Congress 2018, we are excited to announce the first beta release of Flutter . Flutter is Google's new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. Get started today at flutter.io to build beautiful native apps in record time.
LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There's a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to explore ideas and “what ifs”; Building…
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
At Red Planet Labs we’ve been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of magnitu…
Today Shumway landed in the Firefox codebase. Shumway is a way to support playing Flash (SWF files) without the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash Player has been plagued with bugs so being to play Flash without the normal player is a big step forward for security. Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that…
tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of Git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop).
(at least on commodity desktop Linux with stock settings)
Ship cross-platform React apps in ½ the time with 2x performance.
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi "hat" attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old Amazon Kindle eb…
I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back…
I'm awarded the Swedish Polhem Prize 2017. (Link to a Swedish-speaking site.) The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset in Swedish), is awarded "for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem." The Swedish innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. This…
An update on Oracle v. Google, our long-running copyright dispute over the use of software interfaces.
