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Anime is eating the world
New tech & business models are accelerating anime to even greater heights.
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My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
As a full-time software engineer at Kapwing and full-time wanderer, I've learned a few things about how to be a digital nomad.
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The history of Alt+number sequences
Code pages and custom keyboard handling.
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Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
Conical slicing tilts the layers into cones instead of stacking flat planes, which lets you print steep overhangs without support. The catch is your printhead.
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Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
Guest Post: What I learned when I figured out how to navigate FCC filings.
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Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs Railway vs Render
We benchmarked latency across 5 cloud providers from 6 global locations over 2 weeks. Cloudflare Workers averaged 182ms, Fly.io 61ms (warm), Railway 381ms, Koyeb 539ms, and Render 451ms. Full timing breakdowns included.
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Identifying Software
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
The current state of systemd-sysext in Flatcar and the next steps
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Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
We recently released a new differential testing tool, called DIFFER, for finding bugs and soundness violations in transformed programs. DIFFER combines elements from differential, regression, and fuzz testing to help users find bugs in programs that have been altered by software rewriting, debloating, and hardening…
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Riot Games laying off 11%
The following is a copy of the internal message from our CEO.
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Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet
One of the many lies in Silver Lake and WP Engine’s C&D was their claim that Automattic demanded money from them moments before our CEO Matt Mullenweg gave his keynote at WordCamp US. Tha…
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Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line
In my job I get to speak to lots of people about Rust. Some are just starting out, some have barely ever heard of it, and then some people are running Rust silently in production at a very large company in a very serious product.
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The HTTP Query Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Pine64 March update: making waves
Long awaited community update is here! Introducing PineVox and bone conduction headset (help us find a name!), IronOS progress, PineNote insights, and PineTime news! We also cover cluster failure, state of services, and the future of the community updates. See you in the upcoming Q&A!
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Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
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Learning From DNA: a grand challenge in biology
Is DNA all you need?
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Postgres vs. Pinecone
We respond to Pinecone's recent blog post comparing Postgres and Pinecone. We show that Postgres can outperform Pinecone in the same benchmarks Pinecone covered in their article.
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Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP
The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data changes.
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not…
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Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
Power your open source project with Vercel platform credits, exclusive community support, and extra benefits.
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How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet
When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.
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Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF
Learn how to measure the impact of Python GIL contention on application latency using eBPF, with real workload examples.