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You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games…
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
I was curious about how a component was implemented in a minified JavaScript file and used ChatGPT to reverse engineer the component.
We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24GB GPUs.
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
The Flutter team has a labor shortage. We're forking Flutter so that the community can accelerate Flutter's development.
Develop .NET, ASP.NET, MAUI, Blazor, and Azure applications – as well as games with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot – on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
Every SQL database engine works in roughly the same way: It first translates the input SQL text into a "prepared statement". Then it "executes" the prepared statement to generate a result.
LiveView 1.0 is out!
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
Practical guidance from Anthropic on building reliable AI agents, from simple composable patterns to fully autonomous systems.
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
In this blog I explore how I use an incident management mindset to manage a complex medical condition. I hope you enjoy it!
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun , but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, was also an accidental revolution. It’s now a standard tool for software engineers, but its origin story wasn’t so much fun this time, at least for Linus.
The Sheep and the Flower - a demoscene production and real-time animation that looks like a standard short animated movie, in just 8kB
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write. Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure expression syntax, can significantly enhance code readability.
What Rails 8 ships and requires: built-in authentication, Solid Queue, Kamal 2, and production SQLite, plus support timelines and an upgrade checklist.
An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem
News, research, and engineering deep dives from Cognition, the team behind Devin, the autonomous software engineer.
