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Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains
Go 1.21 is the first perfectly reproducible Go toolchain.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 597 posts.
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“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session
At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter ...
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Spotting and avoiding heap fragmentation in Rust applications
One of our Rust services started to show an odd memory profile. This is the story of how we investigated the issue.
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Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
And it was so avoidable! The bug was from a piece of dead code, left over from the previous Ariane 4 mission a decade before.
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Using Google’s code history to write more code
Posted by Petros Maniatis and Daniel Tarlow, Research Scientists, Google Software isn’t created in one dramatic step. It improves bit by bit, one l...
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Pydantic V2 rewritten in Rust is 5-50x faster than Pydantic V1
What’s new in Pydantic v2: 5-50x faster than Pydantic v1 and with substantial architecture improvements for enhanced safety & maintainability
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Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs
Today, Imagination Technologies announced some very exciting news: they are now using Zink for full OpenGL 4.6 support!
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PyPI has completed its first security audit
We are proud to announce PyPI's first external security audit.
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023
This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old since its initial release to the public as an experimental GameCube emulator. It's been a long ride, with twists and turns. I don't know if anyone back in 2003 expected Dolphin not only to still be under active development 20 years later, but to also support the…
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Extism makes WebAssembly easy
An exploration of how Extism makes it easy to use WebAssembly
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JavaScript macros in Bun
Call JavaScript functions at bundle-time and inline results into the AST
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Memory Copy Hunting
I have a super power. I want to share it in this blog post so that you, my dear reader, also have it!
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How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
Demystifying and deconstructing Q&A bots that work over your data.
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You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are introducing WebGPU support to Cloudflare Workers. This blog will explain why it's important, why we did it, how you can use it, and what comes next
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WebAssembly Tail Calls
This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.
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Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing
Learn what windowing is, the difference between the four types of windows (hopping and tumbling, or session and sliding), and how to create them.
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A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene
Hello Rustaceans! Sometimes, good things come in many. For example: birthdays! 🎉 As it just so happens, we have 3 big things to celebrate: It's the 10th anniversary of Florian publicly posting his first Rust code on September 28th, 2013! Ferrous...
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Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
`rip` resolves and installs packages from PyPI from pure Rust
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We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.
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Fyrox Game Engine 0.29
Fyrox 0.29 added new animation editor, reworked animation system and lots of smaller improvements.
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Type constraints in 65 lines of SQL
Creating validated data types in Postgres
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