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Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
Introducing canvas
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle ), a programming language for producing configuration.
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
Today we're excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, "Show, Don't tell," so let's walk through a few of the tent-pole features in our huge 1.0 release.
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
Ollama now has initial compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, making it possible to use existing tooling built for OpenAI with local models via Ollama.
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Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous…
Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a
Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun , but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, was also an accidental revolution. It’s now a standard tool for software engineers, but its origin story wasn’t so much fun this time, at least for Linus.
After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features…
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
Fascinating engineering details behind Paper.
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…
Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship – the format is simple and clean. Researche...
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.
What I learned after reading 14 studies about flow state
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.
How we built an anonymous Zig/C++ crash reporter that doesn't require debug symbols to be shipped with the application.
Learn how to master cold email outreach from 0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale.
