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Users of mature C libraries conventionally get to choose how memory is allocated — that is, when it cannot be avoided entirely . The C standard never laid down a convention — perhaps for the better — so each library re-invents an allocator interface. Not all are created equal, and most repeat a few fundamental…
How the public healthcare system in Italy is using software to support the vaccination effort is appaling. I’ve spent a good part of the last 30 years trying to convince people that software is imp…
Today we're introducing Refact LLM: 1.6B code model with infill real-time code completion (including fill-in-the-middle(FIM) capability) and chat.
If you’ve spent any amount of time at a Unix command line you’ve probably already seen xargs . In case you haven’t, xargs is a command used to execute commands based on arguments from standard input.
Update (July 2026): I have started FFmpegKitNext, a source-only continuation of FFmpegKit’s build toolkit and wrapper library.
This article is about how to use the 'tail' command. Here is an overview of how you can use the 'head' and 'tail' commands to output different parts of a file:
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I'm excited to announce a new Mozilla Research experiment: the Emterpreter, a pure-JavaScript interpreter that can start running large Emscripten-compiled apps faster than JavaScript engines can, giving developers control over ...
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
I’ve been interested in Command Query Responsibility Segregation and event sourcing since hearing Greg Young talk on the subject in early 2010. During the past seven years I’ve built an open-source Ruby CQRS library ( rcqrs ); worked professionally on .NET applications following the pattern; and more recently built an…
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
Google and many other organizations, such as NIST, IETF, and NSA, believe that migrating to post-quantum cryptography is important due to the large risk posed by a crypt…
Learn how you can go back in time and replay what went wrong in a C/C++ program with rr (a GNU Debugger Linux enhancement) in this short demo.
A strong runner up was this quote, which captures the essence of what we should be trying to do when creating new languages:
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tl/dr: it can deliver big performance speedups at modest area cost
Mathematical insights create a more intuitive UI for Bézier curves.
The Microvium JavaScript engine for microcontrollers takes less than 16 kB of ROM and 64 bytes of RAM per VM while idle, making it possibly the smallest JavaScript engine to date with more language features than engines 4x its size
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
In the demoscene, there's never a boundary that can't be pushed. My recent 4k demo "Boo!" ( YouTube ), released at X 2023, is a humble attempt to contribute to this ongoing evolution. In particular, it pioneers a new way of computing lines.
