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1 day ago

Starting on seamless C++ interop in jank

jank-lang.org

Howdy, folks! We're one month into me working on jank's seamless C++ interop and I have...
Howdy, folks! We're one month into me working on jank's seamless C++ interop and I have some exciting progress to share. This quarter's work is being sponsored not only by all of my individual Github sponsors, but also by Clojurists Together. Thank you for the support!Seamless interopClojure's interop with Java isn'...

c++clojure compilers
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1 day ago

A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month | bryan newbold

whtwnd.com

This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required...
This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O. What impact does that have on hosting setup and operating costs? Turns out the dev community beat ...

web
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1 day ago

Prompt chaining reimagined with type inference

haskellforall.com

ai plt
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1 day ago

Reading Zanzibar

macwright.com

Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization...
Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanzibar, and bigger scale than practically any other company, so...

distributed
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1 day ago

The cost of poison - Chronicae Novis Rebus

mad-scientist.club

security web
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1 day ago

Rye language

ryelang.org

plt
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1 day ago

The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power

tedinski.com

A quick story about me: I recently finished up a thesis related to extending programming languages...
A quick story about me: I recently finished up a thesis related to extending programming languages with new features. One of the things I got to do along the way was take some time looking back on some old proceedings from conferences on that exact topic (Extensible Languages Symposium 1969 and 1971), to get familia...

programming
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1 day ago

Optimizing Guile Scheme — dthompson

dthompson.us

Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that...
Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time spent developing Chickadee, a game programming library, I have gotten quite familiar...

lisp performance
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May 2

My tips on giving technical talks

marcusnoble.co.uk

Changelog 2025-05-01: Added advice from Márk Sági-Kazár 2025-05-01: Added suggestion from Oriel about going to the...
Changelog 2025-05-01: Added advice from Márk Sági-Kazár 2025-05-01: Added suggestion from Oriel about going to the toilet before speaking. I've been giving talks at meetups and conferences for a few years now. I started off after the encouragement of my friends giving their own talk and looking so cool doing it! It'...

culture
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May 2

An Apple Library Primer | Apple Developer Forums

apple.com

compilers mac
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May 2

The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

fabulous.systems

bts devops sysops webdev
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May 1

Astro Linker Chrome Extension

thelinell.com

May 1, 2025 A little Chrome extension for my own personal use. It helps make creating...
May 1, 2025 A little Chrome extension for my own personal use. It helps make creating links on my site a bit easier. This site is built using Astro, and I’ve become a huge fan. I recently added a new feature that lets me add Links, which are just links to other websites that I’ve found useful for one reason or anoth...

javascript show vibecoding
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May 1

RVSDG: An Intermediate Representation for Optimizing Compilers

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Intermediate Representations (IRs) are central to optimizing compilers as the...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Intermediate Representations (IRs) are central to optimizing compilers as the way the program is represented may enhance or limit analyses and transformations. Suitable IRs focus on exposing the most relevant information and establish invariants that different compiler passes c...

compilers
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May 1

Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)

xenodium.com

emacs ios show
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May 1

Digital Dams That Don't Hold: Why Internet Censorship Fails as Technical Policy

maych.in

Throughout history, governments and authorities have tried to control the flow of information. From the burning...
Throughout history, governments and authorities have tried to control the flow of information. From the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books to Nazi book burnings and the Soviet Union’s censorship apparatus, controlling what people can read, share, and discuss has b...

blog internet life linux networking
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May 1

GitHub - mscheidegger/minidisc: Zero-config service discovery for Tailscale networks

github.com

go networking
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May 1

A quick demo of core.async.flow

youtu.be

clojure science & technology video
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May 1

GitHub - koreader/koreader: An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

github.com

design mobile
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May 1

Easier layout with margin-trim

webkit.org

If you write a lot of CSS, you are familiar with those moments when you aren’t...
If you write a lot of CSS, you are familiar with those moments when you aren’t quite sure how to accomplish what you want to accomplish. Usually, you’ll turn to tutorials or documentation, and learn more about CSS to get your work done. But every once in a while, you realize there is no “proper” way to do what you w...

css
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May 1

GitHub - joexbayer/RetrOS-32: A x86 32bit Hobby Operatingsystem with graphics, multitasking, networking and 32bit C-Compiler for i386 architecture.

github.com

compilers osdev retrocomputing
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May 1

GitHub - cannadayr/git-sqlite: A custom diff and merge driver for sqlite

github.com

databases vcs
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May 1

Making PyPI's test suite 81% faster

trailofbits.com

Trail of Bits has collaborated with PyPI for several years to add features and improve security...
Trail of Bits has collaborated with PyPI for several years to add features and improve security defaults across the Python packaging ecosystem.Our previous posts have focused on features like digital attestations and Trusted Publishing, but today we’ll look at a equally critical aspect of holistic software security:...

performance python testing
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May 1

Elm test distributions

janiczek.cz

…in which I’ll tell you how you can make sure your property based tests are testing...
…in which I’ll tell you how you can make sure your property based tests are testing the interesting cases. Recently I was discussing a TigerBeetle article on swarm testing with Jeroen Engels on the Elm Slack, and at one point, reading the paragraph: For example, one weakness of our test above is that we chose to pop...

elm haskell testing
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May 1

Curing A Case Of Git-UX

oppi.li

Git worktrees are great, but they fall behind the venerable git checkout sometimes. I attempted to...
Git worktrees are great, but they fall behind the venerable git checkout sometimes. I attempted to fix that with fzf and a bit of bash. Fear not if you haven’t heard of “worktrees”, I have included a primer here. Skip the primer ->. Why Worktrees? Picture this. You are whacking away on a feature branch. Halfway ther...

design vcs
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