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Doom on the Oldest Digital Computer in America!

youtube.com

hardware retrocomputing science & technology video
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Scalar Select Anti-Pattern

matklad.github.io

async for event in events_incoming: await process(event) I had to refactor this loop later, every time....
async for event in events_incoming: await process(event) I had to refactor this loop later, every time. For an example, see the direct cause for the article, this TigerBeetle PR. Let me write the refactoring down, so that I get it right from the get go next time! Let’s say I am implementing an LSP server for some pr...

performance
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Why we need lisp machines

substack.com

Computers have changed a lot in 51 years. 51 years ago computers were so expensive that...
Computers have changed a lot in 51 years. 51 years ago computers were so expensive that we had to have multiple users per machine to make it financially feasible. 51 years ago most multi-user operating systems were messy, inconstant, and in general a pain in the ass. So some dude at Bell Labs built a little OS to fi...

lisp osdev
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Good enough ten-second sum types for Postgres — Duckrabbit Solutions

duckrabbit.tech

databases show
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Why I wrote fx - Rik's Weblog

huijzer.xyz

I used to always run my blog via a static site generator. For people unfamiliar with...
I used to always run my blog via a static site generator. For people unfamiliar with this, it essentially means that you modify files locally and then send these files to a static site hoster like GitHub Pages or Cloudflare. This worked fine but it wasn't very fast. Uploading a blogpost would take me a few minutes. ...

release web
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Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

torproject.org

When launching privacy-critical apps and services, developers want to make sure that every packet really only...
When launching privacy-critical apps and services, developers want to make sure that every packet really only goes through Tor. One mistyped proxy setting–or a single system-call outside the SOCKS wrapper–and your data is suddenly on the line. That's why today, we are excited to introduce oniux: a small command-line...

linux security
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Keeping time on a stream

s2.dev

cloud distributed object storage s2 serverless
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Why I use WebAssembly

nasso.dev

wasm web
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QR Code Not Scanning? We'll Try to Help!

humanqr.com

ai
2
Smalltalk-78

thechm.org

retrocomputing
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

dragas.net

netbsd
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

stillgreenmoss.net

security
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MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin | Robert Heaton

robertheaton.com

Hello! Hello! Welcome, welcome. My name is Hobert Reaton, and I’m here in this shabby motel...
Hello! Hello! Welcome, welcome. My name is Hobert Reaton, and I’m here in this shabby motel conference room to present you with yet another once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. Look at this picture. Tell me what you see: Do you see learning? Self-improvement? The future leaders of our country? I’ll tell you wh...

satire
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ZJIT has been merged into Ruby

railsatscale.com

Following Maxime’s presentation at RubyKaigi 2025, the Ruby developers meeting, and Matz-san’s approval, ZJIT has been...
Following Maxime’s presentation at RubyKaigi 2025, the Ruby developers meeting, and Matz-san’s approval, ZJIT has been merged into Ruby. Hurray! In this post, we will give a high-level overview of the project, which is very early in development. ZJIT is a new just-in-time (JIT) Ruby compiler built into the reference...

compilers ruby
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running modified containers with podman

die-welt.net

Everybody (who runs containers) knows this situation: you've been running happycontainer:stable for a while and it's...
Everybody (who runs containers) knows this situation: you've been running happycontainer:stable for a while and it's been great but now something external changed and you need to adjust the code while there is still no release with the patch. I've encountered exactly this when our Home-Assistant stopped showing the ...

english linux planet-debian software
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Distributed Systems without Raft (part 2)

medium.com

consensus algorithm distributed distributed systems go golang
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If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

pivot-to-ai.com

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI...
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all fired. But if AI is so obviously superior … show us the code. Where’s the receipts? Let’s say, where’s the open source ...

vibecoding
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The Database Row That Did and Didn't Exist - The Future Is Now

mistys-internet.website

Every now and then, I run into a bug so mystifying on its face I know...
Every now and then, I run into a bug so mystifying on its face I know it’s going to be a journey just from the error message. This is one of those stories. I work at a Python shop right now, and we were upgrading an app to Django 5. There are a few breaking changes, but nothing too unexpected or out of the...

debugging python web
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Avian Physics 0.3 - Joona Aalto

joonaa.dev

bevy games physics rust simulation
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Luke Kanies | AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant

lukekanies.com

Posted 5/12/25I decided to finally give vibe coding a try. I’ve barely written any code since...
Posted 5/12/25I decided to finally give vibe coding a try. I’ve barely written any code since I hired developers at Puppet in like 2009. And I’ve been a staunch AI/LLM skeptic. But I figured I should at least be an educated skeptic.After a false start, and a couple of months of periodic usage, I’ve come to some conc...

practices vibecoding
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$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty

memorysafety.org

performance rust
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Minus 100 points

microsoft.com

When I switched over the C# compiler team, I had hoped that I would be able...
When I switched over the C# compiler team, I had hoped that I would be able to give some insight into how the design team works, what decisions we make, etc. Language design is a very esoteric field, and there's not a lot written about it (though “Design and evolution of C++“ is a pretty good read). I had hoped that...

plt
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the penultimate conditional syntax – Tony Finch

dotat.at

plt
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The first year of free-threaded Python

quansight.org

Published May 13, 2025Last week, the CPython developers rolled out CPython 3.14.0b1. This week, PyCon 2025...
Published May 13, 2025Last week, the CPython developers rolled out CPython 3.14.0b1. This week, PyCon 2025 kicks off in Pittsburgh, PA. Both events mark a significant milestone for the effort to ship and stabilize free-threaded Python. This is the story of the first year of that effort and how our team at Quansight ...

python
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