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Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…
This article describes how PostgreSQL v14 reduces B-tree index bloat with "bottom-up index tuple deletion". A test case shows the difference.
Today, I am happy to announce the availability of AWS Cloud Control API a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS delivers the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services. Builders leverage these to…
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
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Long term readers of this blog will know our devotion to using container-based technology, especially Docker, to significantly improve software quality through repeatable builds. In the Autumn/fall of 2020, Microsoft introduced a Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extension Remote – Containers. With one quick stroke, this…
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF viewer (PDF.js) and support filling PDF forms within Firefox to make our users' lives easier.
Anyone following my Twitter could have seen me complaining about things happening around Python build systems frequently. The late changes feel like people around the Python packaging ecosystem hav…
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
Spark-style distributed datasets can be modeled with a few lines of code, using Unison's distributed computing library. This article teaches you how.
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.
Over the past few years, Etsy’s Web Platform team has spent a lot of time bringing our frontend code up to date. It was only...
Read Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS on the Polytomic blog.
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
.NET 6 Preview 5 is now available.
Securitum is a pure pentesting company specialising in the security of IT systems. We have experience in performing security audits (including penetration tests) - mainly for financial/e-commerce/industrial sectors. We have performed penetration tests and cyber security services for leading European banks (see…
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This tutorial is an in-depth look at how Git works, performing a lot of sometimes unusual steps to walk through interesting details. You will have to pay attention closely, or you will get lost on the way. But do not despair; you can run this tutorial on your computer, at the speed you want, skip to any step you want…
This NumPy release is the largest so made to date, some 684 PRs contributed by 184 people have been merged. See the list of highlights below for more details. The Python versions supported for this release are 3.7-3.9, support for Python 3.6 has been dropped. Highlights are
Thanks to 88 contributors, 283 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.5 release on crates.io! For those who don't …
By Robert Smith, Elias Lawson-Fox, Cole Scott Updated July 1, 2025 by Robert Smith. Introduction Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp. We can load it like a normal Lisp library. CL-USER> (asdf:load-system "coalton") CL-USER> (in-package #:coalton-user) COALTON-USER> This…
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database.
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?
Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.
The behavior of the graphics pipeline is practically standard across platforms and APIs, yet GPU vendors come up with unique solutions to accelerate it, the two major architecture types being tile-based and immediate-mode rendering GPUs. In this article we explore how they work, present their strengths/weaknesses, and…
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