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Ten years of V8
An overview of major milestones for the V8 project in the past 10 years as well as the years before, when the project was still secret.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
Posted by Tim Graham on Sept. 23, 2015
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Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it's time for a proper Temporal API
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Markdown in /src
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that Markdown is now an important source artifact for software systems built with LLMs, and that, following the principle of locality, it should live in /src, alongside the code it produces.
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Highlights from Git 2.54
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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React Router v5
React Corporate Workshops, Training, and Consulting
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Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
I've been playing with an idea of how to extend the traditional unix shell pipeline. Historically shell pipelines worked by passing free-form text around. This is very flexible and easy to work with. For instance, its easy to debug or incrementally construct such a pipeline as each individual step is easily readable…
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Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification
A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is “the world’s most popular API tooling”. It’s a powerful open source framework back…
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A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey
Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful and heavily used tool for manipulating strings in JavaScript. This post describes how we updated the RegExp engine in ...
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Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power
Open sourcing our learnings around Windows APIs, COM, C++ and their delightful integration into Swift - while building Arc.
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Xanadu was waiting for agents
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
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When URL parsers disagree
Discovery and walkthrough of CVE-2023-38633 in librsvg, when two URL parser implementations (Rust and Glib) disagree on file scheme parsing leading to path traversal.
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What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’
This article explores how terminal emulators function, decoding the process of sending commands to the shell for execution. Unveil the mystery behind what happens when you open a terminal and enter Is.
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The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
Not doing the reading.
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Typed Python: new Mypy release
I just uploaded version 0.4 of mypy-lang to PyPI ! This release focuses on performance improvements, usability improvements and bug fixes....
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Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Go 1.22 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
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Building a lower-latency GC
We’ve been doing a bunch of work recently on improving the responsiveness of OCaml’s garbage collector. I thought it would be worth discussing these developm...
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Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
We are excited to introduce pgzx, a framework for creating Postgres extensions using the Zig programming language.
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Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs
There have been several releases of CUDA.jl in the past couple of months, with many bugfixes and many exciting new features to improve GPU programming in Julia: CuArray now supports isbits Unions, CUDA.jl can emit debug info for use with NVIDIA tools, and changes to the compiler make it even easier to use the latest…