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A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means? In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
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Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client. Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world. ReviewStack is a demonstration code review UI for Gi…
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Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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An interactive intro to CRDTs
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.
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If AI writes your code, why use Python?
For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
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How I program with LLMs
This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result has been that I now regularly use LLMs while working and I consider their…
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The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.
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Julia 1.0
Announcing the release of Julia 1.0. The much anticipated 1.0 release of Julia is the culmination of...
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Atom Is Now Open Source
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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CLI: Improved
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university wh…
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Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
People call WebAssembly a game changer because it makes it possible to run code on the web faster. Some speedups are already present, and some are yet to come. With ...
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A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview
A complete guide for senior engineers on how to prepare for a system design interview.
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Fine tune a 70B language model at home
We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24GB GPUs.
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PHP in 2019
PHP isn't the same old crappy language it was ten years ago
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If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right…
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React Native for Android
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Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be. This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a ...
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Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
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Vulkan is Here
Vulkan is a next generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in PCs, consoles, mobile phones and embedded platforms.
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
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Changing how we develop Ladybird
Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.
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Making Minecraft Spherical
Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Engines are important, both in cars and in browsers. That’s why we’re so revved up this morning – we’re releasing the Beta of a whole new Firefox,
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