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Inkscape Moves to GitLab
The Inkscape project has completed its planned move from launchpad using the bazaar repository system, to GitLab using the git repository system.
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Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
You can now use LaTeX style syntax to render math expressions within Markdown inline (using $ delimiters) or in blocks (using $$ delimiters). Writing expressions as blocks To add math…
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.
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Cursed Knowledge
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
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Moving from Macbook to Linux
The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.
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Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
If you develop for the web, you’ve probably heard of OpenStreetMap, an open data alternative to Google Maps. Despite the wide name recognition of OSM, you may have questions like how do I make a web map with OSM data? and how can I host maps myself? There are popular guides on how to work with planet files, PostGIS…
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A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
Yuki “Piro” Hiroshi is a trailblazer and a true do-it-yourselfer. Whenever the Tokyo-based programmer gets irritated with any aspect of his browsing experience, he builds a workaround for himself and ...
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
This PyQt5 tutorial shows how to use Python 3 and Qt to create a GUI on Windows, Mac or Linux. It even covers creating an installer for your app.
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Gimp 2.9.4 Released
We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready MyPaint Brush tool, symmetric painting, and split preview for GEGL-based filters.
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Pandoc 3.0
A universal document converter
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The Zed Debugger Is Here
From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.
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Introducing the Firefox debugger.html
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the ...
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...
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Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
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We ditched Google Analytics
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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The Onion releases fartscroll.js
Include "fartscroll.js" in your page. You can include the latest version straight from our CDN:
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly
Editor's note: if you want to help test it on a recent nightly you can toggle the devtools.webide.enabled preference in about:config. The WebIDE is available today under Tools>Web Developer>App Manager ...
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Settings are not a design failure
The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a…
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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu