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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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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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How games cheat to help players
If we’ve done our jobs right, Wind-up Knight is a fairly simple game. There are only four inputs, and only two are ever needed simultaneously. Sir Sprint, our heroic spring-loaded knight, runs forward automatically, removing the need for a classic directional pad or analog stick. The challenge is derived from careful…
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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
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Android Studio 3.1 Stable
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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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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C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 release 15.8 Preview 3 we’re announcing support for Just My Code stepping for C++. In addition to previously supported callstack
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JRE 8 needs more codecache than before
How Indeed investigated and addressed high system load after Java 8 migration of its job search web app
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Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road
hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
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All You Need to Know About UML Diagrams
UML was created in 1994 by engineers at Rational Software to standardize system diagrams. Of the 14 UML diagram types, activity and use case diagrams handle 80% of real-world business process documentation needs.
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Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
D-INFK GitLab Service
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Zig 0.6.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software. With special thanks to many generous sponsors , the Zig project is financially sustainable and currently supports one full-time developer . Let's reboot systems programming.
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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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Phi-4 Reasoning Models
Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. Learn more.
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Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler
SWC (Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast JavaScript and TypeScript compiler.
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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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Master Concurrent Processes with core.async
One day, while you are walking down the street, you will be surprised, intrigued, and a little disgusted to discover a hot dog vending machine. Your scalp tingling with guilty curiosity, you won’t be able to help yourself from pulling out three dollars and seeing if this contraption actually works. After accepting…
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Fuzzing Like It’s 1989
With 2019 a day away, let’s reflect on the past to see how we can improve. Yes, let’s take a long look back 30 years and reflect on the original fuzzing paper, An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities, and its 1995 follow-up, Fuzz Revisited, by Barton P. Miller. In this blog post, […]
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LLVM 3.6 Release Notes
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.6. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Streams – The Definitive Guide
The Streams API allows JavaScript to programmatically access streams of data received over the network and process them as desired.
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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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Qt Offering Changes 2020
New low-cost option for small businesses, Qt account requirement for installation and long-term support only for commercial licensees
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What Are the Tricky Parts of Embedded Development?
In this installment in my continuing series about the tricky parts of embedded systems , I discuss some important areas that are often overlooked or undervalued.