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Job queues are deceptively tricky
A worked out example of different job queueing semantics and how they affect workloads.
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The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
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Announcing Rust 1.96
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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How Kubernetes Probes Work
Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.
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New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output
Explore new GCC 16 features for C++ developers. Learn about improved hierarchical error messages, updated SARIF output, and experimental HTML diagnostic tools.
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Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
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Farewell, Rust for web
Farewell, Rust for web. For now…
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Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising "easter egg" to users of Claude Code: `2.1.198` includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human.
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Let's make the worst Htmx
Learning how htmx works by building one from scratch.
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The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
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Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.
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Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning
In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work…
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A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all
We pulled dozens of AGENTS.md files from across our monorepo and measured their effect on code generation. The best ones gave our coding agent a quality jump…
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there is a sliding window over our data, and…
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How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in the program logic (like a recent CVE reported in Cargo), but some of the most nasty ones are caused by memory unsafety…
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Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi
Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.
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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
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Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked
Mimicking the operation more accurately.
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I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
One year minus one week ago to the day I published an article announcing the new Scheme implementation I was writing, scheme-rs . Today I am excited to announce that scheme-rs has reached its first version, 0.1.0 . You can check it out at it’s website ( scheme-rs.org , which should be updated to scheme.rs at some…
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
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Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
I made a programming language. I'm sorry.
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Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them
Why two identical VMs on the same host can perform 20% differently — and what NUMA topology in Xen-based virtualization actually costs you.
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Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science
Tony Hoare at the LASER summer school, September 2007 (All photographs in this article are by the author) Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s major achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, which I am going to try to summarize, not pretending to get…
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Memory layout in Zig with formulas
I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which…