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A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
Collaboration with a large team is challenging, and even more so if it’s on a single codebase, like the Shopify monolith. Shopify changes 40 times a day. We follow a trunk-based development workflow and merge around 400 commits to master daily. There are three rules that govern how we deploy safely, but they were hard…
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CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
An experiment in creating a 3D environment using HTML elements and CSS transforms featuring lights, shadows and collision detection.
“No, we don’t use Kubernetes”. That always gets raised eyebrows... so we decided to write about our reasoning behind this cloud architecture decision.
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
Programming with WebAssembly or JavaScript is not an either/or choice. So developers don’t need to choose between WebAssembly and JavaScript. However, we do expect that developers will swap out parts ...
A few weeks ago, on a whim my friend and I decided to hackathon our way through an app to help us learn how to play guitar . In a stroke of inspiration, we decided to learn something new, and do the project in the Elm programming language , about which I had heard many good things.
Script for highlighting large videos in iCloud and a storage discrepancy
Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project.
Fastest general and simple binary search C++ implementation
If you do just foo , the following justfile will write a single byte 0x0A to a file named bar:
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information.
Comparing one of the most popular Postgres features against alternatives
I love when my current problem can be solved with a state machine. They’re fun to design and implement, and I have high confidence about correctness. They tend to:
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to write your own virtual machine (VM) that can run assembly language programs, such as my friend’s 2048 or my Roguelike . If you know how to program, but would like to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on inside a computer and better understand how programming…
In association with the release of curl 8.4.0, we publish a security advisory and all the details for CVE-2023-38545. This problem is the worst security problem found in curl in a long time. We set it to severity HIGH. While the advisory contains all the necessary details. I figured I would use a few additional ……
If you’re managing a complex git codebase with multiple developers, then you may well be using a tool like GitHub or BitBucket to delve into the history and figure out branch and merge issues.
If you’re a JavaScript programmer who’s been intrigued by Rust’s hack without fear theme—making systems programming safe and fun—but you’ve been waiting for inspiration, I may have something for you! I’ve been working on Neon, a set of APIs and tools for making it super easy to write native Node modules in Rust.
Dolphin started out as a GameCube emulator in 2003. In 2008, experimental Wii support was added. And now, in 2026, Dolphin enters the realm of arcade emulation with support for the Sega, Namco, and Nintendo arcade effort, the Triforce, finally arriving. Want to learn more about the Triforce? Check out our deep dive…
