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The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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How Stacks Are Handled in Go
At CloudFlare, We use Go for a variety of services and applications. In this blog post, We're going to take a deep dive into some of the technical intricacies of Go.
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JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary
JDK 9 is in the final phases of development, heading towards release on September 21st. The public review consideration ballot for the Java Platform
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Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
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Zig 0.10.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
Forgejo v13.0 was released on 16 October 2025. You will find a short selection of the changes it introduces below and a complete list in the release notes .
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Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio
Like any artistic medium, games are emotional experiences filled with joy, sadness, frustration, and more. Special moments can bring tears, cause shouting, or even screams. But imagine during one of those emotional highs if the audio simply died, and the game continued onward in a deafening silence before eventually…
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Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
I spent the last week looking for a memory leak in Postgres’s WAL Sender process. I spent a few days getting more acquainted with Valgrind and gcc/clang sanitizers, but ultimately got nowhere useful with them. Finally, I stumbled on the memleak program from the bcc tools collection which led me right to the source…
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Xerox Alto Source Code
Depending on your age, your first computer might have been an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80, an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or another of the early personal computers. If you missed these early machines the first time around, perhaps you have seen them in the Personal Computer section of the Revolution exhibit at the…
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Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox
Generational garbage collection (GGC) has now been enabled in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine in Firefox 32. GGC is a performance optimization only, and should have no observable effects on script ...
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LLVM Code Generation in HHVM
One of the most common questions we get about HHVM is why we don’t use LLVM for code generation. The primary reason has always been that while LLVM is great ...
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The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
CHM releases to the public for the first time a full oral history with Ivan Sutherland, pioneer of computer graphics, virtual reality, asynchronous systems, and more.
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Remix's concurrent submissions are fundamentally flawed
In this article we discuss the complexity of introducing concurrent operations on the client wuthout causal ordering on the server.
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Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model
When I wrote stljs, a library to read, write, and convert STL to PNG, one of the things I had to decide was how to calculate where the camera was located and where to point the camera. You want to …
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations.
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Real-time event aggregation at scale using Postgres with Citus
Citus is commonly used to scale out event data pipelines on top of PostgreSQL. Its ability to transparently shard data and parallelise queries over many machines makes it possible to have real-time responsiveness even with terabytes of data.
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Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Go At Heroku (Doozer)
Two Heroku system engineers discuss their experiences using Go.
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Gitlab default branch name changes to main
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".
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PHP 5.5.5 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.