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I got some fancy new speakers last week. They’re powered speakers and they have streaming service integrations built in, unlike the 35-year-old passive speakers I’m upgrading from. Overall they’re great! But they’re so loud that it’s difficult to make small volume adjustments within the range of safe volume levels for…
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
Prisma 2 Beta introduced type-safe database access with Prisma Client, updated docs, and a clearer path toward production readiness.
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
Jen Simmons' seven-part mini-series on resilient CSS and how you can create great graphic design on the web, now, and not have to worry about all the old browsers.
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When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
Update 10 Feb 2011 : Tim Bray has written a much shorter, clearer and less technical explanation of the broken use of hash-bangs URLs . I thoroughly recommend reading and referencing it.
Why does Space Station 14 crash with ANGLE on ARM64? 6 hours later…
Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
Erlang was released as Open Source by Ericsson 8 December 1998. What made it all happen? Find out the story behind continuing to build products to make the world a better place with tools for fault tolerant and scalable systems available to the masses.
This is my journey building an open source car system with Go & Qt, rear camera, live OpenGL map … Cross compilation In Part I, I had to patch qtmultimedia for the camera to work, but Qt compilation is resource hungry, same goes for the osrm compilation, the memory of the Raspberry Pi is too small. I had to to set up…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished.
Now that the CoreCLR is open-source we can do fun things, for instance find out if it’s possible to add new IL (Intermediate Language) instruction to the runtime.
On the Dolphin Forums, one of the more common questions that come up is "How come I can emulate this Wii game just fine but this GameCube game is slow?" While those more knowledgeable about the intricacies of emulation may roll their eyes, it does warrant some explanation. Usually when...
On UNIX-like operating systems, userland processes invoke kernel procedures using the "syscall" feature. Each syscall is identified by a "syscall number" and has a short list of parameters, which both can vary between operating systems, hardware platforms, and configuration options.
Update 5/10/2019: check the bottom of this post for some links to comments and discussion.
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on…
Scala, first appearing in 2004, is neither an old stalwart nor a new player in the programming language market. This post will discuss the unique combination of features that Scala provides and how it compares to other languages on the market, diving beneath the superficial experience to explore the fundamentals of…
Was the ssh backdoor the only goal that "Jia Tan" was pursuing with their multi-year operation against xz?
