1981
Django 1.5 released
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1982
Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
To be successful at digital transformation you need to optimize the key feedback loops in your software engineering organization
1983
Stupid Unix Tricks
These are my stupid unix tricks. I hope that they are useful to you. Platform Note I use Mac OS X (pron: “ten”). If you don’t, you might want to switch…
1984
Command line tools for productive programmers
In this article, the author shares six command-line tools that can enhance productivity for programmers. These tools include `broot` for navigating...
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Ruby 2.3.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.3.0.
1989
We have C++14
Following the Issaquah meeting in February, we launched the Draft International Standard (DIS) ballot for the next C++ standard. That ballot closed on Friday.
1990
1991
Agent design is still hard
My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.
1992
Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
1993
.NET Core 3.0
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more…
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
1999
1195725856 and other mysterious numbers
Last week was the final week for this half's performance review at Facebook, where we write summaries of work and impact we and our peers had over the last h...
2000
COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
Delving the depths of computing, hoping not to get eaten by wumpus
2001
Moving fast with the core Vim motions
Where you learn the power of motions and how you can move blazingly fast and with extreme prevision using VSCodeVim
2002
How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
September 3, 2016 was just another day for most of the world but to me it will always be memorable as the day that I married my partner. There are many
2003
Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
Hey, that took only a month, which means that it’s time, once again, to display some Emacs charts. And since this is the tenth post in this series, I thought I’d natter on even more tha…
2004
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Macro Splats 2025
A Gaussian splat is essentially a bunch of blurry ellipsoids. Each one has a view-dependent color, using a process similar to training an AI model, you can optimize until it converges to the photos you feed in. The result is a sort of 3D photograph that can be viewed freely from any angle. Captivated by this…
2006
Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
I do not pretend to have more experience or understanding than the top level engineers I often see writing blogs here, but what I am is annoyed. I love rust. It's by far my favorite language, I enjoy the community and the language ergonomics. I've been able to incorporate it into projects in my day job where fit.
2007
Is WebP really better than JPEG?
If you have used tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights, you probably have run into a suggestion to use “next-gen image formats”, namely Google’s WebP image format. Google claims that their WebP…
2008
Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
Learn about the motivation for Prisma ORM and how it compares to other Node.js and TypeScript database tools like ORMs and SQL query builders. Applies to Prisma ORM v6.
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What programming languages are used late at night?
Do you program in the evening? How about late at night? I enjoy programming as a hobby and I'm a bit of a night owl, so I often code well outside working hours, sometimes past midnight. And whatever time it is, when I run into a bug I visit Stack Overflow. This means that Stack Overflow data can give us insights into…