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Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 497 posts.
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Best practices for writing code comments
While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than…
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Rust for Windows 0.9
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur
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GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling
GitHub Actions now supports ephemeral (i.e. single job) self-hosted runners and a new workflow_job webhook to make autoscaling your runners easier. After a job is run, ephemeral runners are automatically…
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PyTorch 1.10
We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch 1.10. This release is composed of over 3,400 commits since 1.9, made by 426 contributors. We want to sincerely thank our...
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Manifest v3 Update
Manifest v3 support for Firefox extensions is coming in late 2021. See a high-level summary of changes to the platform.
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
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Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Power Fx: open-source now available
The preview release of Microsoft Power Fx is now available as open source on GitHub You can now freely integrate this Excel-like, low code programming language in all of your own projects.
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Redis Anti-Patterns
Learn to dodge common Redis pitfalls like large keys and hot keys. Boost both your performance and stability. Try it today.
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The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?
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Crystal 1.2.0
We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning the several bugfixes. For details visit the release’s notes. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
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Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community
GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.
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How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
Since the start of the year, the AWS Rust team has been drafting our charter and tenets. Charters and tenets are the framework AWS teams use to define our scope and priorities. The charter tells you what the team does, and the tenets tell you how the team will do it. Since one of our […]
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Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr
Learn how you can go back in time and replay what went wrong in a C/C++ program with rr (a GNU Debugger Linux enhancement) in this short demo.
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Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Nov. 22, 2021
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Racket Compiler and Runtime Status
posted by Matthew Flatt With the upcoming version 8.0 release, Racket on Chez Scheme (Racket CS) will become the default implementation of Racket. This report discusses the implications of that change, continuing a series that was originally about Racket...