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Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance
Jonan: Welcome everyone. Today we are doing an interview to talk about new features coming in Ruby 3. I am here with my coworker, Sasada Koichi san....
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How to Version an API
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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Red Programming Language 0.6.3
This new Red release contains ~830 commits, closes 86 issues , and brings a large number of new features. The main one is official support...
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Making GitLab faster
In GitLab 8.5 we shipped numerous performance improvements. In this article we'll take a look at some of these changes and the process involved in finding and resolving these issues.
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How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck
Announcing Helix v0.5 with improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support 🎉
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Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
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LLVM 3.0 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker
Snyk issued a Denial of Service security vulnerability for colors@1.4.1, following this vulnerable code. We highly recommend you revert to colors@1.4.0, and pin your dependencies’ versions to avoid blind upgrades of the offending version. We also recommend you migrate to a different package.
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Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers
New series of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones provide developers with direct access to Apple experts.
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Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.
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Toasty, an async ORM for Rust
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity
Go 1.5 is the first step toward a new low-latency future for the Go garbage collector.
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Qt Licensing Changes
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls
Understanding the Raft Consensus Algorithm can be tough. In honor of "Mean Girls" day (October 3), we present Raft as explained through the movie "Mean Girls."
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Adding BigInts to V8
V8 now supports BigInts, a JavaScript language feature enabling arbitrary-precision integers.
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A First Look at the JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder
A guide to building a transcoder using Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda.
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Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance
webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the ocean of third-party tooling can make it difficult to optimize. Poor performance is the norm and not the exception. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and so — after many hours of…
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Elm in the Real World
Elm is a beginner friendly functional reactive programming language for building web frontend. Choosing Elm for a customer project made my job nicer than ever and helped maintain project velocity during months of development.
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I Don't Use Classes
Instead of classes, I prefer modules that expose groups of functions that accept state and other dependencies.
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Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments
Call Courier from an Auth0 post-user-registration Action to create a profile and send a welcome, with your API key in Action secrets and no webhook route.