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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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When did estimates turn into deadlines?
Tip: In complex software modernization projects treat estimates as guidelines, not deadlines.
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Preferring throwaway code over design docs
If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.
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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep , an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity…
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
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CSS Grid Areas
A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today.
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I run a software book club
How I run a software book club
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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
A story about data and a very foolish hobby
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Experts vs. Imitators
Learn how to spot the difference between and expert and an imitator with 5 key tells.
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WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
Last week I wanted to replace my OpenVPN setup with WireGuard. The basics were well-documented, going beyond the basics was a bit trickier. Let me teach you want I learned. The basics But first, let’s summarize the basics. I have a server with a hosting provider that I want to use as a VPN server. I won’t delve into…
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Give people something to link to
If you have a project, an idea, a product feature, or anything else that you want other people to understand and have conversations about... give them something to link to! …
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ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack to bring Google AI, innovations, and features faster to users.Over the last 13 years, we’ve evolve…
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If English was written like Chinese (1999)
The English spelling system is such a pain, we’d might as well switch to hanzi — Chinese characters. How should we go about it?
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OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
OpenAI is to this decade’s generative-AI revolution what Netscape was to the 1990s’ internet revolution.
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From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
This post shares the story of Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver.
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I have no constructor, and I must initialize
It has been three days. The room is cold and dark, but your screens are blinding. You feel disoriented as you come in and out of dissociative episodes. Now and again, you laugh, to no accompaniment. Why are you here? Was this your fault?
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Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
Sometimes, making particular security design decisions can have unexpected consequences. For security-critical software, such as password managers, this can easily lead to catastrophic failure: In this blog post, we show how Bitwarden’s Windows Hello …
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Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system ...
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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-new Palm OS game, and after less than two months of intermittent coding, I'm excited to announce that it's ready to be released to the public!
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Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
Meta FAIR is releasing new research artifacts that highlight our recent innovations in developing agents, robustness and safety, and architectures that facilitate machine learning.
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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
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Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available
Neon is now Generally Available. We’ve shipped major improvements to Neon internals that, combined with our operating experience scaling up to 700,000+ databases over the past year, give us the confidence that Neon is ready to support your business-critical workloads. If you’re building or scaling an application, you…
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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale – an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.
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I don't want to fill out your contact form
This is my personal blog, where I write solely in my personal capacity. It does not represent the positions of any organisations I'm associated with.
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Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know