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Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb
Learn how code that interacts with external devices can be ported to the web with WebAssembly and Fugu APIs.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
In the final part of our series, we'll implement an edit modal.
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CXX-Qt: Safe Rust bindings for Qt
Binding Rust with Qt in a safe and idiomatic way using CXX as bridge, macro expansion, and code generation through CXX-Qt
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.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we’ve got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The…
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Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?
In this article, we provide a holistic view of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) abstractions by a systematic review of their historical evolution. We discuss some of the key factors that drove the evolution and identify the pitfalls that make them infeasible when building modern applications.
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How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts
We’ve been building Hydrogen for more than a year. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how we did it, what we learned from making big bets, and what it was like building a new framework from the ground up on experimental technology.
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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?
How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…
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Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol
This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.
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VSCode – Markdown Edition
With the latest release, markdown gains programming language like tooling in VSCode
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When "letting it crash" is not enough
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.
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Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM
Hello everyone. I'm proud to release the result of a Facebook-sponsored study on the feasibility of using the RPython toolchain to produce ...
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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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JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments
Enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rather than solely in a mixture of HTML and JavaDoc @ -tags.
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Interactive C++ for Data Science
Interactive C++ for Data Science In our previous blog post “Interactive C++ with Cling” we mentioned that exploratory programming is an effective way to reduce the complexity of the problem. This post will discuss some applications of Cling developed to support data science researchers.
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Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos
Turborepo 1.2 introduces improved task filtering, artifact signing and integrity, human-readable and JSON dry runs, and more!
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The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
A deep dive into the infrastructure of .NET Core. Challenges, changes and the future.
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Interactive Docs with Markdoc
Markdoc delivers a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience. It enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.
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Unstructured Datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB
All about when to use unstructured data types in Postgres, such as Hstore, JSON, and JSONB. The tl;dr is that the right data type depends on your use case. Here we dig deep into the benefits, and why JSONB became so popular since it first got real and proper support in Postgres 9.4. The B in JSONB stands for better.
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Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins
How we leveraged a textbook data structure in our core platform and achieved a 15x speed up for a key data processing step.
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Kubernetes at Box: Microservices at Maximum Velocity
“Box is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Its platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI.”
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Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure
How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.
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A Peek into F# 4.1
Later this year, we’re going to ship a new version of Microsoft’s tools for F#. This will include support for F# 4.1, featuring important incremental improvements to the language that have been developed in conjunction with F# users and contributors. Our tools will also include a cross-platform, open-source F# 4.1…
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Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files
Insights gathered from analyzing the robots.txt files of Alexa's top one million domains.
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Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet
Crunchy Data is excited to release a new extension so you can write Postgres data to Parquet and or pull data from Parquet to Postgres. Craig has the details and sample code.