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Django 1.6 released
The latest official version is 6.1.3
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Servo Continues Pushing Forward
An update from Adenilson Cavalcanti and Lars Bergstrom
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Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had
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Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
Algebraic Structures are something I wish I’d understood better, sooner. I had a hazy idea of what they were, but didn’t know the correct terminology. That was a massive barrier to finding out more. This article is my attempt to stop that happening to others. We’ll look at: What are algebraic structures? How do we use…
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Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client
Today, we are proud to announce Apollo Client 1.0, “Pink Panther”! Apollo Client is now fully featured, stable and production-ready. If you’ve been holding off on trying GraphQL or Apollo, now’s a great time to check it out.
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Please make your table headings sticky
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll…
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Nintendo 64 Java
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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I Built a Lisp Compiler
I’m very proud to announce the completion of my first programming language compiler! Malcc is an incremental and ahead-of-time lisp compiler written in C. This is the story of my progress over the years and what I learned in the process. An alternate title for this post is: “How to Write a Compiler in Ten Years or…
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Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style as a…
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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no…
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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, we’re introduci
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Why GNU Emacs?
I don’t usually try to explain tools that I use to other people, unless they made an explicit request as to how they could improve their workflow. However, since today is “I love Free Software” Day I think I should seize this opportunity and explain what draws me to GNU Emacs and how I use it.
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Why you should probably be using SQLite
Where you store your application data has enormous impacts on your entire application. There are implications on the entire stack based on what you decide to...
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I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
Stealing another KakaoTalk user’s chat messages with a simple 1-click exploit.
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The Unix Philosophy
The ‘Unix philosophy’ originated with Ken Thompson's early meditations on how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface. It grew as the Unix culture learned things about how to get maximum leverage out of Thompson's design. It absorbed lessons from many sources along the way.
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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology…
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Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
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Pains of building your own billing system
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.
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Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)
If you’ve read my first post about assembly language, you might expect that this is another post on how to understand assembly language. I will write more about that at some point, but this post is not that. Instead, this post is going to talk about some of the weird things and random trivia I learned while writing an…
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I know when you're vibe coding
I shouldn't have to care about this. I don't want to care about how someone's code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prom
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The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
At JupyterCon, I learned three things: reactive notebooks are the future, Jupyter is the new Bash, and data science is a gateway drug.
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Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional
You will often hear it said that JavaScript is a ‘functional’ programming language. It is described as such simply because functions are first-class values: many other features that define functional programming – immutable data, preference for recursion over looping, algebraic type systems, avoidance of side effects…
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API pagination design
Returning all results for a given query could be a challenge for an API, especially if there are thousands of results. It puts a load on a server, on a [...]
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