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You can now sign up for ‘How to Solve It with Code’, which is a course in how to solve problems (including coding, writing, sysadmin, and research) using fast short iterations, and also provides a platform that makes this approach easier and more effective.
author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community,. Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tr...
Why we still choose Ruby on Rails in 2025: Learn how Lago scales millions of API events with Rails, Go, and Rust, balancing developer speed, concurrency, and performance.
Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and SoC, offering insights on balancing clarity, abstraction, and…
Extend the switch statement so that it can be used as either a statement or an expression, and that both forms can use either a "traditional" or "simplified" scoping and control flow behavior. These changes will simplify everyday coding, and also prepare the way for the use of pattern matching (JEP 305) in switch …
Your trusty Dependabot (and other GitHub bots) might be an unwitting accomplice. Through "Confused Deputy" attacks, they can be tricked into merging malicious code. This doesn't stop here. It can escalate to full command injection via crafted branch names and even bypass branch protection rules. Plus, we disclose two…
Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…
We are pleased to announce that btcd , our full-node bitcoind alternative written in Go, is finally ready for public testing!
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
Run reproducible, immutable environments in Kubernetes without container images. Faster deploys, SBOMs-by-default, and zero drift with Flox.
A short recap of how SQLite now has a WASI build
How we’re getting feedback from the Reddit community
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Over the past few months, during the lead-up to the TypeScript 5.0 beta, our team spent a good portion of our time looking for ways to improve the
Implementing Mario Klingemann's Stack Blur algorithm in C++ 15 ways, with tests and benchmarks, to build fast CPU drop shadows for JUCE.
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anymore! In this post I will start by explaining the value of git blame and […]
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that collects, cleans, and activates customer data, sending events to hundreds of tools with one API.
