And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too (except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never…
Native Go fuzzing is now ready for beta testing on tip.
Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Here are some limitations of Rust and how to work around them.
There's a fundamental tension in authorization. Is it business logic or authorization logic? Should it be in the app, or separate? Let’s talk about what makes a
Nim version 1.6 is now officially released!
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the
In this article, we'll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.
Today, GitHub can repack even the largest repositories we host in a fraction of the time it used to take. Here's how we did it, and why.
Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC .
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
by Eric Evans Perfectionism is a pitfall. For those who, like me, love elegant design and see its utility, there is a slippery slope waiting when a satisfying design does not emerge in a reasonable time. It takes constant self-discipline to recognize this and accept, let go, ship and move on – or return in...
Customer relationship management (CRM) is the biggest, fastest growing software market in the world. $40B is spent on CRMs annually, and almost all companies have one. But for those of us that don’t directly use a CRM… what’s the big deal? A CRM is the source-of-truth for all customer data and interactions. Need to…
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
Hey! We're getting really close to releasing React + Vue support for Tailwind UI, so I thought it would be interesting to share some of the behind-the-scenes efforts that have gone into even making it possible.
Learn how to beat TimSort at merging sorted lists in Python by creating a C extension. Discover the performance advantages of merging lists compare...
News post: Gleam v0.14 released!
If Zig code doesn’t look like it’s jumping away to call a function, then it isn’t. This means you can be sure that the following code calls only foo() and then bar() , and this is guaranteed without needing to know the types of anything:
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.0 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. *** Racket 8.0 is here!*** Racket 8.0 marks the first release where Racket CS is the default implementation. Creating, polishing, and adopting Racket CS has be...
How Nubank switched from and End-to-End suite to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
Deno 1.10 improves the built-in test runner, adds support for Web Storage API, structured clone, and more.
Turning Outlook into a keylogger via VBA macros
