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Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
Google is releasing updated Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite preview models with improved quality, speed, and efficiency.
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Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. Most of the language ...
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Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
At Repl.it we come to work every day to explore a single idea—what if programming just worked? What if instead of fiddling around with packages, configurations, and mismatching versions, you just open your IDE and start coding. What if developers can go from an idea to coding and shipping software with no time in…
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Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
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Deno Sandbox
Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.
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Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem
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Node v8.0.0 Released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Devin: AI Software Engineer
News, research, and engineering deep dives from Cognition, the team behind Devin, the autonomous software engineer.
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Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even remotely helpful. WebAssembly ?!
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D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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A Case of Stolen Source Code
Last week, for about three days, the macOS video transcoding app HandBrake was compromised . One of the two download servers for HandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the app, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote control of your computer.
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AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
A compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md achieved 100% on Next.js 16 API evals. Skills maxed at 79%. Here's what we learned and how to set it up.
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
A look at how and why we migrated from Next.js to Ruby on Rails.
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would be possible. Now we have the answer. Apple's M1 hardware is…
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Servo Nightly Builds Available
Try out the new Servo nightly builds
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A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions
On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems. However, something went very wrong. We saw odd Stripe errors
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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WebKit Supports Nested CSS
Back in December, we wrote an article detailing three different options for CSS Nesting.
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Moving from Macbook to Linux
The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.
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Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States today, arguing on behalf of 77 computer scientists that the justices should review a disastrous appellate court decision finding that application programming interfaces (APIs) are...
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Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
From the Zed Blog: A tool that predicts your next move. Powered by Zeta, our new open-source, open-data language model.