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Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,304 posts.
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jQuery 3.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels
Follow our Django Channels tutorial to build a real-time chat app with WebSockets. Learn about Channels, ASGI, and asynchronous Python web app development.
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The Majestic Monolith
Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …
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Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ
Build 3103 is out now. Downloads and a full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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WebKit is moving away from prefixes
WebKit’s new feature policy is to implement experimental features unprefixed, behind a runtime flag.
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The Zen of Erlang
This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak.
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Some thoughts on asynchronous Python API design in a post-async/await world
I've recently been exploring the exciting new world of asynchronous I/O libraries in Python 3 – specifically asyncio and curio . These two libraries make some different design choices. This is an essay that I wrote to try to explain to myself what those differences are and why I think they matter, and distill some…
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Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
I got nothing to blog.
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Latest update to my friend's 19 year side project
I've made a lot of progress recently focusing on refining my procedural planets and atmospheres. Added into the mix are multi-core particle...
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Rewrite Everything in Rust
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
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NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
(At the bottom of this page, you find a BibTeX reference to cite this article.)
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Booting the Final GameCube Game
Every single GameCube game can at least boot in Dolphin 5.0. Except one. Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its complex way of using the PowerPC Memory Management Unit rendered it unplayable in Dolphin up to this day. But finally as of Dolphin 5.0-540, this challenge has come and gone: Dolphin can finally boot every single…
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Why does software development take so long?
Nageru 1.4.0 is out (and on its way through the Debian upload process right now), so now you can do live video mixing with multichannel audio to your heart's content. I've already blogged about most of the interesting new features, so instead, I'm trying to answer a question: What took so long?
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The Path to Rust
About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…
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Amazon Aurora Update – PostgreSQL Compatibility
Just two years ago (it seems like yesterday), I introduced you to Amazon Aurora in my post Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS. In that post I told you how the RDS team took a fresh, unconstrained look at the relational database model and explained how they built a…
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Go fonts
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
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Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime
Join Illya Gerasymchuk on his new blog as he explores blockchain, DeFi, Zero-Knowledge cryptography, AI, and finance.
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A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts behind the SQL syntax. We will go through the basics of how to use the FROM and WHERE clauses, and move on to more advanced topics like joins, aggregations and subqueries.