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Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
I had a really enlightening talk with Daniel Slutsky this week (who is an exceptional data scientist, software engineer, and community organizer I highly…
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Electronic project kits: hands on with a vintage 160-in-1 (2016)
In this day and age with the bewildering availability of electronics readily available, deciding on a project to embark on can be…
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Unix and Multics (2019)
Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.
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Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas
A closer look at non-elementary group-by aggregations
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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
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Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux
ESET researchers analyzed previously unknown Linux backdoors that are connected to known Windows malware used by the China-aligned Gelsemium group, as well as to Project Wood.
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How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
Bitwarden includes a very handy integration called forwarded email aliases. Learn how to use the feature in this blog!
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Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
Under READ COMMITTED isolation, PostgreSQL can sometimes miss rows when performing UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, or SELECT FOR SHARE statements. This is due to the EvalPlanQual recheck PostgreSQL adds to these statements to prevent lost-update anomalies.
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Quark Stars
Wow — evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a ‘quark star’ is not new, but I didn’t know it was a serio…
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Godotcaml for Godot 4.2
A new way to make games
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Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler
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Generating audio for video
Video-to-audio research uses video pixels and text prompts to generate rich soundtracks
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
Technical details on how Stripe built Ledger, a state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, including how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
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Accidentally writing a SAT solver
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
Comparing typical one-way transfer latencies for a range of popular wireless communication modules and protocols
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Trilobites killed by volcanic ash
Some of the most perfectly preserved trilobite fossils ever found have revealed details of the extinct arthropod unknown until now.
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SaberVM
This post announces SaberVM, an abstract machine for functional programs that guarantees safety, reliability, and portability.
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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Lisp Query Notation (LQN)
Query language and terminal utility for transforming various data formats
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How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss
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The "End of Programming" will look a lot like programming (2023)
Nobody wants “temperamental and mysterious” products, so what will AI-integrated software development look like?
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TypedDicts are better than you think
TypedDict was introduced in PEP-589 which landed in Python 3.8. The primary use case was to create type annotations for dictionaries. For example,...
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The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23
NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post:https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423TL;DR: It makes Go feel too "functional" rather than being an unabashed imperative language.I recently saw a post on Twitter showing the upcoming Go iterator design for Go 1.23 (August 2024)…
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XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
With the release of WASI Preview 2, we take a step back and look at why it matters for wasmCloud and the WebAssembly ecosystem.
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Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.
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Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so
View this post in browser Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you...
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In Praise of Buttons
The Nuberodesign Blog