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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
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Servo Revival: 2023-2024
Summary of the things that have happened in the Servo project since January 2023 when Igalia started to maintain it.
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Python 3.15
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
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Fearless SIMD v1.0
Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here
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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.
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Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs
Highlights: CloudGuard Spectral detected malicious extensions on the VSCode marketplace Users installing these extensions were enabling attackers to steal %
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Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos.
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Go 1.2 is released
Go 1.2 adds test coverage results, goroutine preemption, and more.
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Zig 0.9.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Apple rejected WhisperPad under Guideline 2.4.5 for using the accessibility API to paste transcribed text. After an appeal that ended in another rejection, I split it into two versions — a compliant one on the App Store, and the original auto-paste version, direct.
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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.
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Bringing uv and ty together
Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.
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PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support
"Python 2.x versus Python 3.x": this is by now an old question. In the eyes of some people Python 2 is here to stay, and in the eyes of oth...
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Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always…
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Introducing Shadow DOM API
We’re pleased to announce that basic support for the new slot-based shadow DOM API is now available in the nightly builds.
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I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
Rails 8 eliminates Redis from the default stack. Learn how SolidQueue, SolidCache, and SolidCable replace Redis for job processing, caching, and real-time updates—powered entirely by PostgreSQL. Explore the true cost of Redis, how SolidQueue works, when it scales, and how to migrate from Sidekiq to a simpler…
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Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
Stable Code, an upgrade from Stable Code Alpha 3B, specializes in code completion and outperforms predecessors in efficiency and multi-language support. It is compatible with standard laptops, including non-GPU models, and features capabilities like FIM and expanded context size.
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
Codemaps is meant to offer a shared understanding of a system between humans and AI, enabling your AI to teach you about the code you are looking at…
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SvelteKit Is in Public Beta
And we’d love to have your feedback
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Postgres Incremental Backup
We walk through the incremental backup feature committed to the Postgres 17 development branch by Robert Haas. We show an example on our local machine.
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Erlang OTP 22.0 is released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language