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humanqr.com

ai
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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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LZEXE

cosmodoc.org

The EXE files for episodes one and two were compressed before publication. The utility used to...
The EXE files for episodes one and two were compressed before publication. The utility used to compress these files was LZEXE version 0.91, written by Fabrice Bellard. If that name sounds familiar, it may be because Bellard later went on to create projects like FFmpeg (a multimedia file conversion suite) and QEMU (a...

retrocomputing
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Writing that changed how I think about PL

bernsteinbear.com

May 13, 2025 Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video...
May 13, 2025 Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video that completely changes how I think about a topic in programming languages and compilers. For some of these posts, I can’t even remember how I thought about the idea before reading it—it was that impactful. Here are some of those p...

plt
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Task estimation: Conquering Hofstadter's Law

substack.com

Estimating the completion time of tasks is important work. It’s also something that brings great anguish...
Estimating the completion time of tasks is important work. It’s also something that brings great anguish to a lot of engineers and software developers, and causes significant friction between dev teams, management, other departments, and customers.This is because almost everybody is still talking about estimation th...

practices
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Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year

apple.com

May 13, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year New features...
May 13, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year New features include Accessibility Nutrition Labels on the App Store, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access, and Accessibility Reader; plus innovative updates to Live Listen, visionOS, Personal Voice, and more CUPERTINO, CALI...

a11y ios
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LibreWolf Browser

librewolf.net

browsers web
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Policy of transience

greenend.org.uk

practices
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GitHub - mozilla-firefox/firefox: The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

github.com

Context from reddit: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/QnfydsDj48o/m/8WadV0_dBQAJ They made the decision to move from hg.mozilla.org to GitHub last year....
Context from reddit: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/QnfydsDj48o/m/8WadV0_dBQAJ They made the decision to move from hg.mozilla.org to GitHub last year. They are in the final legs of that migration. Comments

browsers
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Operator Precedence: We can do better • The Adamant Programming Language Blog

adamant-lang.org

The longer I’ve thought about how to handle operator precedence and associatively in a programming language,...
The longer I’ve thought about how to handle operator precedence and associatively in a programming language, the more convinced I’ve become that languages have fallen short. Because it was simple, easy and efficient, language designers have generally provided a total order for operator precedence and made all operat...

plt
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