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Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
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Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)
Master Git through understanding, not memorization. Learn branches, merges, and collaboration with clear explanations and visual diagrams.
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C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020)
A blog by and for database architects.
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Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva.
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Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2022
After a long wait, the Progress Report is back! This time it wasn't so much from a lack of content, but from a lack of content creators. The past three months had illnesses hit one of our writers and the other had a very challenging move. Even with these major hurdles jumped, we're not even close to 100% yet. It's…
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Dolphin Progress May and June 2022
It's been a very hectic two months. Dolphin's development builds officially dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 in 5.0-16393 when the Windows buildbots were updated to use Qt6. If you read the last Progress Report, you'd know that Windows 7 was already on shaky terms due…
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New from Anaconda: Python in the Browser
pyscript.net Supporting open source and creating tools that enable people to do more with less are why I joined Anaconda almost eight years ago. Today,…
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Qt 6.4
Qt 6.4 is now available and comes with a lot of new modules, features, and improvements. And Web Assembly is now a fully supported platform!
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Balancing “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vs. “Release early and often”
Embrace innovation with Red Hat's cloud solutions for enterprise-wide automation
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Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
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Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.
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Perfecting WebGPU/Dawn native graphics for Zig
A 700+ commit complete rewrite of mach/gpu (the WebGPU interface for Zig) has been completed, enabling seamless use of Dawn (Google Chrome's WebGPU implementation) for native Zig applications.
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Mutt 2.2.0
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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The state of static analysis in the GCC 12 compiler
New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.
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Nim Version 1.6.6 Released
The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.6, our third patch release for Nim 1.6.
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The Hypermedia-Driven Application (HDA) Architecture
In this essay, Carson Gross explains the Hypermedia-Driven Application (HDA) architecture, which combines the simplicity of traditional Multi-Page Applications with the enhanced user experience of Single-Page Applications by extending HTML infrastructure through declarative syntax and hypermedia-based server…
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Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up
“Why can’t we just write this code once and have it just work across Web, Android and iOS?” As a mobile engineer who has spent both a significant portion of his career copying the exact same product from iOS to Android, I’ve asked myself this question many times.
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C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.
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Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the funky way
The crontab man page ("man 5 crontab" or read online) contains this bit: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (i.e., don't start with *), the command will be run when either field matches the current [...]
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Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
Today we’re very excited to announce Pyston-lite, a JIT for Python that is easily installable as an extension module. We’ve taken the core technology of Pyston and repackaged it so that…
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Quirks, Caveats, and Gotchas in SQLite
The SQL language is a "standard". Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike. Every SQL implementation has its own peculiarities and oddities, and SQLite is no exception to this rule.
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Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
Two-Factored Authentication (2FA) is now enforced for maintainers of the top-500 packages, by dependents, on the npm registry. To learn more about configuring 2FA, see Configuring two-factor authentication. To learn…
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Metaprogramming in Python
How you can use metaprogramming in Python and how it can simplify certain tasks.
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mod_wasm: Run WebAssembly with Apache
mod_wasm is a new module to run WebAssembly (Wasm) modules in Apache httpd
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Strype, a Python frame-based editor
A frame-based Python editor for the BBC micro:bit