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The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.
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Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
Research programming language for concurrent ownership
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Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)
The vulnerabilities we found in Cloudflare's CIRCL FourQ implementation: invalid-point attacks, Edwards-curve edge cases, and the disclosure that fixed them.
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MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps
Accelerate your UI development with MonsterUI, our Python library for building frontend UIs quickly in FastHTML apps.
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Darklang Goes Open Source
As part of shutting down Dark Inc. and forming Darklang Inc., we've finally open-sourced all of our repositories. Our source code is now under the Apache License 2.0. For years, we wrestled with questions of sustainability and how to build something that truly empowers developers. We've
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Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
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Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam We are working on an embedded scripting language for Rust. This language, called Roto, aims to be a simple yet fast and reliable scripting language for Rust applications. The need for Roto comes from Rotonda, our BGP engine written in Rust. Mature BGP applications usually feature some
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Nim 2.2.6
The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.
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Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting
Learn how to use pgRouting as a lightweight graph database solution in Postgres.
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We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.
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JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform
A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,
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A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
In the second part of our series, let's dive deeper into some of Solid Queue's more advanced features.
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Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions
Make Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most.
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When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.
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Coding Isn't Programming
Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing history, open source and distributed systems.
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Go is portable, until it isn't
An exploration of Go's portability limits when integrating with system-specific C libraries like libsystemd and dealing with glibc vs. musl systems.
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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor
On hosting images without the price tag.
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Structured outputs create false confidence
Constrained decoding seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it often forces models to prioritize output conformance over output quality.
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The features of Python's help() function
Python's help() function accepts more than functions, modules, and objects. The help() function can lookup help for symbols, keywords, and topics!
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Pathfinding
Hello! I've recently been working on the pathfinding for NPCs in my game, which is something I've been looking forward to for a while now since it's a nice chunky problem to solve. I thought I'd write...
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Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
One recent development is the ability to compile Java programs into self-contained native binaries. This provides more convenient single-file distributions, faster startup time, and lower memory footprint, at a cost of slower creation time and limitations around reflection and dynamic classloading. This article…
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Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub
GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and…
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T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models
T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.
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GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide
Instrument your CI/CD pipelines with OpenTelemetry. A step-by-step guide to capturing GitHub Actions data via the Collector.
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Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
Skyvern now writes and maintains its own code, making AI scraper building 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster. Learn how explore-replay works in June 2026 (Updated).