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Welcome to the Python Engineering blog
Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who
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Python 3.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered bootstrap-sass Ruby gem
On March 26, 2019, a malicious version of the popular bootstrap-sass package, that has been downloaded a total of 28 million times to date, was published to the official RubyGems repository.
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python…
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Taking the Raspberry Pi 2 for a Test Drive with GNU Radio
Installing GNU Radio and receiving aircraft radar with a USB TV tuner.
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Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here
Rust bindings for GTK and GLib-based libraries
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CJIT: C, Just in Time
Run, compile, and link C programs instantly with CJIT.
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Debugging with Elm 0.18
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
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Optimizing our way through Metroid
How should a fuzzer balance exploration and minimization? Samus has the answer.
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PyPy 2.6.0 released
PyPy 2.6.0 - Cameo Charm We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.6.0, only two months after PyPy 2.5.1. We are particulary happy to update cf...
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15 Years of Shader Minification
How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. In this blog post, we'll go through its…
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Racket-On-Chez Status
posted by Matthew Flatt with thanks to collaborators Kent Dybvig, Andy Keep, Gustavo Massaccesi, Sarah Spall, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Jon Zeppieri It's been almost a year since we decided to try running Racket on Chez Scheme, and it has been almost six ...
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Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
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The technical interview practice gap
Access to technical interview practice matters more than raw technical ability, and without it, we won't fix representation in tech.
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The baseline for web development in 2022
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
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API design is stuck in the past
The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.
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New C++ features in GCC 12
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
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It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js DX was just... bad. From my perspective, Next.js’ App Router…
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Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
Rust struct serialization problem caused by many nullable SQL columns.