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Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
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PyPI has completed its first security audit
We are proud to announce PyPI's first external security audit.
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How is LLVM tested?
This article provides an overview of the test suites that are used by LLVM project to maintain a quality of its libraries and tools on a high level.
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Go 1.24 Is Released
Go 1.24 brings generic type aliases, map performance improvements, FIPS 140 compliance and more.
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Introducing MLFE: ML-Flavoured Erlang
What ML-Flavoured Erlang is a statically typed language with basic parametric polymorphism (generics) for the Erlang VM that I’ve been hacking …
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Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
Nix users value its isolated, repeatable builds and simple sharing of development environments. Nix makes it easy to go back in time and rebuild software from years ago without issue.
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Statistics that live in your SQL
A tour of the-stats-duck v0.6.0: a one-shot data profiler, regression and bootstrap CIs in plain SQL, ten new distributions, and SAS/XPT imports that got 52x faster — with live Bedevere demos you can poke at.
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XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way
One of the most consistently popular posts on this blog has been my XKCDify post, where I followed in the footsteps of others to write a little hack for xkcd-style plotting in matplotlib. In it, I mentioned the Sketch Path Filter pull request that would eventually supersede my ugly little hack.
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Real time numbers recognition (MNIST) on an iPhone with CoreML
Learn how to build and train a deep learning network to recognize numbers (MNIST),how to convert it in the CoreML format to then deploy it on your iPhoneX and …
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Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go
My colleague Loren Segal shared the blog post below. As you can see, he’s really excited about the new AWS SDK for Go! — Jeff; Today we are announcing the first Developer Preview Release of the AWS SDK for Go (v0.6.0). If you have not been following along with development, the AWS SDK for Go […]
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Writing a CHIP-8 Emulator with Rust and WebAssembly
Over the past couple of months I’ve been exploring the potential of WebAssembly. I wanted to try my hand at creating a more complex WebAssembly application, which is why I’ve been spending my evenings working on a CHIP-8 emulator ... and learning Rust!
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Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds
Introducing Source Spotter, a Go Checksum Database auditor and Go toolchain reproducer
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Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace
One of the great strengths of strace as a debugging tool is that it shows you what a program is doing regardless of whether it was compiled with debug info or not. The downside of this is that you …
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Compiling Lisp to JavaScript in 350 Lines of Haskell
λm.me - Compiling Lisp to JavaScript from scratch in 350 LOC
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Compiling a subset of Python syntax to x86-64 assembly for fun and zero profit
A toy (but working) compiler that turns Python syntax into x86-64 assembly using Python's built-in AST module.
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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
The :npm-deps compiler option now defaults to false . Previously, :npm-deps defaulted to true .
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023
This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old since its initial release to the public as an experimental GameCube emulator. It's been a long ride, with twists and turns. I don't know if anyone back in 2003 expected Dolphin not only to still be under active development 20 years later, but to also support the…
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The Algorithm for Hard Problems: Shake and Pull Gently
(Or, “regularized greedy algorithms and their applications.”) James Gilles “Algorithm” is one of those words that sounds fancier than it really deserves. We hear all the time about the “facebook algorithm”, the “youtube algorithm”, “high frequency trading algorithms”, “artificial intelligence algorithms”, and so on…
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C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading
For decades, the C and C++ standards treated multi-threading and concurrency as something existing outside the standard sphere - in that "target-dependent" world of shades which the "abstract machine" targeted by the standards doesn't cover. The immediate, cold-blooded replies of "C++ doesn't know what a thread is" in…
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Introduction to compute shaders
Anteru's blog is a blog about development, software architecture and 3D graphics.
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Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Introduction I created a Game Boy emulator in Ruby and released it as a gem called rubyboy! (I’d be happy if you could give it a star!) And now it runs in the browser using WebAssembly! Try the demo in your browser! Screenshots Rubyでゲームボーイのエミュレータを作りました！ カラー対応やWasmでブラウザ対応もやっていきたい💪 GitHub: https://t.co/hFwmZD6FNp…
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The art of writing eBPF programs
A blog about the process of writing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs and what’s going on under the hood at the kernel-level.