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Update December 2015: This project has now ended and the floppy era is over - for me at least. The project has been featured quite a bit in the press and blogosphere. Most notably: BBC World Service (14min12sek in) CBC Spark Norwegian National Broadcasting (NRK) Dagbladet (national newspaper) While mass production of…
Today Dropbox announced in a blogpost titled “Limitations of the GET method in HTTP” that it will start allowing POST requests for APIs that would otherwise only be accessible using GET .
Apache Spark 1.4 introduces SparkR, new DataFrame features, ML pipelines, and enhanced visualization and monitoring tools for better production debugging.
A summary of the work done so far on getting MicroPython to work on the BBC micro:bit device for children.
This year I had the privilege to organize GopherConIndia 2015 and also interview a number of Gophers.
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
When I told my colleague Matt Gaunt I was thinking of writing a piece on microtask queueing and execution within the browser's event loop, he said "I'll be honest with you Jake, I'm not going to read that". Well, I've written it anyway, so we're all going to sit here and enjoy it, ok?
I previously wrote about explicitness in Elixir. One of my favorite ways the language embraces explicitness is in its distinction between eager and lazy operations on collections. Any time you use the Enum module, you’re performing an eager operation. Your collection will be transformed/mapped/enumerated immediately…
Hypothetically, how would you teach Computer Science or programming to someone who has no access to a computer, and with whom your only communication is books and postal mail?
Insights on 3D product configuration, visual CPQ, and e-commerce optimization for manufacturers. Read guides, case studies, and expert analysis.
Yesterday I was working on a small feature for the Rust compiler, and came across a situation which really showcased Rust’s awesomeness as a language …
Why is Go open source, and how can we strengthen our open-source community?
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of our Java client driver for RethinkDB. Visit the installation instructions for details about how to use it in your Java project.
Hello. Ting, ting, ting. Attention! … ATTENTION! Thank you. Hi, I’m Camelia, if you don’t know me. (Or even if you do.) They told me I had to give a speech at Perl 6’s offic…
In August we announced that work had begun on the WebExtensions API as the future of developing add-ons in Firefox. This post covers the progress we’ve made since then. WebExtensions ...
Recently I’ve been deliberately working on some areas of Firefox I’m unfamiliar with, particular relating to graphics. This led me to rewriting Firefox’s BMP decoder and learn a number of interesting things along the way.
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