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C++ Modules: Packaging Story
Experimenting with C++ Modules from the package management and build system perspective
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 597 posts.
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Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.11 release on crates…
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How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter (2022)
Learn about 8 optimization techniques for a faster interpreter in Ruby which I developed using a dynamically specialized internal representation (IR).
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Lisp Game Jam – “Wireworld” in WebAssembly Using Spritely's Hoot Project
This blog post focuses on our second Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 entry, wasm4-wireworld , an implementation of Wireworld on top of Hoot 's lower-level assembly tools which are a part of our Guile → Wasm project to bring Spritely Goblins -powered distributed applications to the common web browser.
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Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers
Delve into best practices for HTTP, Ruby on Rails, and databases, and discover when to adhere to the rules or when breaking them could set your code apart.
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WeeChat 4
Version 4.0.0 is available! WeeChat now follows a practical semantic versioning and there are breaking changes in this release, please read carefully the release notes. See
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Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
Tailscale v1.36 for macOS features a significantly reduced binary size (going from 92MB to 56MB). The effort started out with a chance observation about a surprisingly large executable, and ended up involving some creative approaches using dlopen.
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mruby 3.2.0
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language complying to (part of) the ISO standard. mruby can be linked and embedded within your application. We provide the interpreter program
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How Beeper Mini Works
It’s a technical deep dive, so buckle up!
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Will Carbon Replace C++?
Is Carbon going to be a real replacement for C++? Let's find out.
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JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
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NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance
As of today, NVK is now an officially conformant implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.
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Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy
You can now use Node.js built-in modules like `node:http` on Deno Deploy, allowing you to run existing Node.js apps at the edge.
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Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
Calling hell from heaven and heaven from hell is a classic paper from the previous century, introducing the Haskell foreign function interface (FFI). It describes the facilities that Haskell offers for calling functions written in C (and vice versa). In this blog post, we will consider how to call functions written in…
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Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams
Learn how to use to_form/1 and LiveView Streams to create a dynamic list of forms.
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Deno KV Is in Open Beta
Deno KV, the easiest way to add a strongly consistent database to your app, is now in open beta.
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The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
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Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers
Enhance the Stream API to support custom intermediate operations. This will allow stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are not easily achievable with the existing built-in intermediate operations. This is a preview API .
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Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD
Slow, unreliable CI/CD? Learn how to use SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to maintain focus, prioritize effort, and rebuild developer trust in CI/CD.
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PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication
Introduction In this blog, we'll be going over some more advanced topics new in Postgres 16. Having some experience with Linux, Postgres, and SQL is necessary as we'll not only be going over these new features but also how to implement them. This blog was written using PostgreSQL 16 (Development Version) running on…
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Remote Code Execution as a Service
Learn how Earthly Compute, a remote code execution as a service, was built to handle bursty workloads and provide secure and fast remote execution ...
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How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler (2022)
Finding RCE during deobfuscation in JEB decompiler running on Java 18.
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Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
We'll create and load a snapshot of our custom JavaScript runtime to optimize startup time.
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Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
The Qt Quick Compiler has learned a few new tricks recently that can make your QML code run a lot faster.
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-Werror Is not your friend (2017)
22 May 2017 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 27 October 2023I want to make a few points up front to short-circuit common misunderstandings with this article: I have a zero warning policy on my projects. I turn on a lot of warnings. -Wall, -Wextra, and a whole host of specific warning flags. I supplement … Continue…
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Our Journey with Apache Arrow (Part 2): Adaptive Schemas and Sorting
In the previous article, we discussed our use of Apache Arrow within the context of the OpenTelemetry project. We investigated various techniques to maximize the efficiency of Apache Arrow, aiming to find the optimal balance between data compression ratio and queryability. The compression results speak for themselves…
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Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison
This is a Python/Pandas vs Julia cheatsheet and comparison. You can find what is the equivalent of Pandas in Julia or vice versa. You can find links to the documentation and other useful Pandas/Julia resources. The table below show the useful links for both: Pandas Julia data analysis