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Hey Siri: An On-Device DNN-Powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Introduction to Hierarchical State Machines
The formalism of Hierarchical State Machines (aka statecharts) makes the state machine approach truly applicable to real-life embedded systems. Read more.
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Introducing Qt 3D Studio
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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EmberConf 2017: State of the Union
Ember.js (or should we say Amber.js) turned five years old last December. In some ways, five years is a short amount of time. But when measured in web framework years, it...
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016
We have celebrated the 15th anniversary of the GameCube and the 10th anniversary of the Wii in the last few months. As the Wii's successor, and the brand lineage, has been discontinued in the run-up to the release of the Switch, it is a time for reflection. But, this doesn't mean an end for the GameCube and Wii; if…
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What Are the Tricky Parts of Embedded Development?
In this installment in my continuing series about the tricky parts of embedded systems , I discuss some important areas that are often overlooked or undervalued.
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Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch
Stories, insights, and updates from the Poki team.
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Official support for .NET
Stripe.net is a popular open-source library for .NET that many users rely on today. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of official client libraries.
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Why category theory matters in programming
Divide and conquer has been a core strategy in software engineering. We decompose our systems into smaller modules with focused, simple…
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Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
After a great run, we have decided to officially sunset Nylas Mail.
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PyAnnotate – Auto-generate type annotations for mypy
For statically checking Python code, mypy is great, but it only works after you have added type annotations to your codebase. When you h...
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WebAssembly, an executable format for the web
Le blog d'OCTO Technology, cabinet de conseil et de réalisation IT
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Announcing gopass – A 'pass' compatible password manager for teams
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager
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Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released
August 27th marks five years since diaspora*, the open, privacy-oriented social network, was placed into the hands of its community by its founders. One year ago the community released diaspora* version 0.6, the result of a huge effort of refactoring the old code to make it perform better, as well as redesigning…
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“Holy Grail” Bugs in Emulation, Part 2
It’s been two months since first writing on Holy Grail bugs in emulation and while it did pique the interest of many emulator developers there has been little movement on solving the bugs. Lior did much more research on solving Pinball Fantasies and byuu dug up a forum post implying that there is in fact a three…
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Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance
We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.3.6, the first release since RethinkDB transitioned to community governance. This update includes a range of bugfixes and stability improvements. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes .
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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…
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Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async
Adding new code to Rails controllers can slow your pages down. Here's how to make rendering your Rails pages faster.
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React v16.2.0: Improved Support for Fragments
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. React 16.2 is now available! The biggest addition is improved support for returning multiple children from a component’s render method. We call this feature fragments: Fragments look like empty JSX tags. They let you group a list of…
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Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Atom 1.18 released
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Next.js 3.0 Preview: Static Exports and Dynamic Imports
Next 3.0 features Static Exports with one command and Dynamic Imports