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Updated (4/2017): See .NET Framework Releases for newer releases. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.6.2! Many of the changes are based on your feedback, including those submitted on UserVoice and Connect. Thanks for your continued help and engagement! The release is packed with…
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it.
We have identified three independently exploitable vulnerabilities in Go's encoding/xml. Read more about their impact to Mattermost users.
GigaGPT is Cerebras’ implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT – the simplest and most compact code base to train and fine-tune GPT models.
We are excited to announce the preview release of a new, advanced code optimizer for the Visual C++ compiler backend. It provides many improvements for
DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a convenient manner.
Support for using Rust in the Linux Kernel was recently merged by Linus Torvalds. This is important because Rust is memory safe, meaning that code written in Rust does not suffer from things like buffer overflows, use-after-free, and other memory management vulnerabilities that plague software written in unsafe…
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.
After first getting hooked on Clojure in 2018 I decided to build my business, Wobaka.com, on 100% Clojure the following year. That's how much I enjoyed it. I thought I'd share some of my experience and technical stack for anyone else thinking about building and running their business on
A detailed explanation of why Elixir uses a dot when invoking anonymous functions
In this post I'm going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU's when using Anaconda Python.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. […]
At VectorWare , we are building the first GPU-native software company . Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's portable SIMD ( core::simd ) on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that…
My program received a SIGSEGV signal and crashed with "Segmentation Fault" message. Where does the "V" come from? Did I read it wrong? Was there a "Segmentation *V*ault?"? Or did Linux authors make a mistake? Shouldn't the signal be named SIGSEGF?
Kakoune is a (fairly) young modal code editor that has matured for as long and as well as a good red wine. It places multiple-selections, operability and interactivity at the heart of its distinctive characteristics. It provides users with an efficient and comfortable text editing experience — but that’s not what this…
Learn more about what’s new at Cognito, and what’s new in the world of identity verification, risk management, and compliance regulations.
Portal is a game that consists of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects from one place to another.
Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…
Welcome to the Progress Report for Dolphin Release 2606. We usually prefer to launch toward the beginning of the month, but a slew of important, large, and technically challenging changes had us working overtime. Strap in, because we have a lot to cover! For April Fool's we teased that Dolphin now had support for the…
UPDATED July 2023: How to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL, learn tools to visualize the output. See query execution time and row count.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
