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Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
A browser is an enormously complex piece of software, and it's always in development. About a year ago, we asked ourselves: how could we do better? Our CI relied heavily ...
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Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting
In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average
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Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
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Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010)
On the Z80 CPU there are so few registers and instructions that you can easily know and use them all and wish there were more of them. However, half of the time it feels like the only on you really use is ld. I imagine that if ld took half the number of clock cycles, average code would run twice as fast.
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The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
How do you keep the profession of programming fresh throughout your career? (And how do you explain that your résumé says
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Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
After using Vue 2 as our front-end framework for almost two years, it was announced that this support would no longer be maintained, so we decided to migrate to a new framework. But which one to choose: Vue 3 or Svelte? Please note that our goals after the migration were
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I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
A quick project spiraled into a marathon of AI missteps, hardware headaches, and hard-earned lessons. Welcome to the story of Deskthang.
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GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week
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Vite 3.0
Vite 3 Release Announcement
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Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?
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Frameworkless JavaScript
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
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Deno Cron
`Deno.cron` allows you to easily create scheduled jobs and is available on Deno Deploy. Here's how it works.
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Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512
libdivide is fish ’s library for speeding up integer division by runtime constants. It works by replacing divide instructions with cheaper multiplications and shifts.
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Five Years of Tinygrad
The first commit to tinygrad was October 17, 2020. It’s been almost three years since we raised money. The company is 6 people now. The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests.
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Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged
We find that roughly half of test-passing SWE-bench Verified PRs written by recent AI agents would not be merged into main by repo maintainers. A naive interpretation of benchmark scores may lead one to overestimate how useful agents are without more elicitation or human feedback.
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SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
SQL:2023 has been wrapped. The final text has been submitted by the working group to ISO Central Secretariat, and it’s now up to the ISO gods when it will be published. Based on past experience, it could be between a few weeks and a few months.
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I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …
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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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Nim 1.4
We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.4 after six months of continuous development! Other than version 1.0, this is probably the biggest Nim release yet and we’re very excited to release it!
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An SPA Alternative
In this essay, Carson Gross explores alternatives to Single Page Applications (SPAs), advocating for an 'HTML-Centric' development approach. He highlights the drawbacks of SPA complexity and the benefits of embracing HTML as the core medium for web development, offering a simpler, more efficient way to build…
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Backtrack-Free Cursive
Making English more enjoyable to write.
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Bash patterns I use weekly
5 bash tricks I find myself using often that I wish I'd discovered sooner.
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Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the…
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Serialization Is the Secret
If a value mutates in the forest with no one to see it, does it really mutate?
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A year of building for the terminal
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.