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py-free-threading

py-free-threading.github.io

python
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Hello Frink - Language Perils

ncreep.github.io

In this post, I’ll be introducing the Frink programming language. As stated on Frink’s homepage: Frink...
In this post, I’ll be introducing the Frink programming language. As stated on Frink’s homepage: Frink is a practical calculating tool and programming language designed to make physical calculations simple, to help ensure that answers come out right, and to make a tool that’s really useful in the real world. It trac...

plt science
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges | nicole@web

ntietz.com

My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally...
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both frontend and backend applications ea...

erlang plt
1
Don't Model the Problem

youtube.com

practices programming science & technology video
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‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions

theverge.com

Apple’s latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that...
Apple’s latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones, iPads, and Macs over the next several months. On Apple’s computers, however, you can actually read the instructions programmed into the model supporting some of t...

ai
1
What the heck are reverse mapped types?

andreasimonecosta.dev

Reverse mapped types are a powerful yet little-known feature of TypeScript that allow us to “run...
Reverse mapped types are a powerful yet little-known feature of TypeScript that allow us to “run mapped types backward”. They are mainly a mechanism for inferring a function’s type parameters from values; however, the same inference steps can be performed at the type level using the infer keyword.The purpose of this...

blog developer fp javascript personal
2
Keygen is now Fair Source

keygen.sh

law
1
An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats

arxiv.org

databases performance
1
Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3

kmcd.dev

api http http2 http3 networking
4
corCTF 2024: Its Just a Dos Bug Bro - Leaking Flags from Filesystem with Spectre v1

willsroot.io

Following the theme of corCTF 2023, I wanted to release another exploitation challenge that connects kernel...
Following the theme of corCTF 2023, I wanted to release another exploitation challenge that connects kernel internals and modern x86_64 micro-architectural attacks. For this year, the players were presented with the following new syscall on Linux version 6.9.0. char corctf_note[0x10] = {0}; SYSCALL_DEFINE2(corctf_wr...

security
1
Video with alpha transparency on the web

jakearchibald.com

I've been helping some teams at Shopify improve page load performance, and the issue of 'videos...
I've been helping some teams at Shopify improve page load performance, and the issue of 'videos with an alpha channel' kept coming up, where videos of UI mocks needed to be composited on top of inconsistent backgrounds, such as larger CSS backgrounds. Often a good solution here is to create the animation using web t...

web
3
Cat9 Microdosing: Each and Contain

arcan-fe.com

Time to continue the journey towards better CLI shells without the constraints of terminal emulation. In...
Time to continue the journey towards better CLI shells without the constraints of terminal emulation. In the previous post we looked into the new commands list and stash. List was for providing an interactive and live updated take on ‘ls’, and stash for batching file operations. This time we get contain for merging ...

osdev
1
My favorite device is a Chromebook — kokada

capivaras.dev

Most of the posts in this blog (including this one) and most of I would call...
Most of the posts in this blog (including this one) and most of I would call "personal computing" that I do nowadays is mostly done in one of the most unremarkable devices that I own: a cheap Chromebook Duet 3, that I bought for around EUR300. I was thinking why, because it is woefully underpowered: a Snapdragon 7c ...

hardware nix
2
Converting ASCII strings to lower case at crazy speeds with AVX-512 – Daniel Lemire's blog

lemire.me

performance
2
GM Shaders Guest: Radiance Cascades

gmshaders.com

Hello again, this is Yaazarai (Alex) and I’m back for another tutorial on global illumination! The...
Hello again, this is Yaazarai (Alex) and I’m back for another tutorial on global illumination! The previous tutorial went over Radiosity which was a method for roughly approximating GI based on random per-pixel ray sampling. Its naive and extremely expensive to compute—casting some N amount of rays per pixel on the ...

graphics
1
༩ ༢ ༡ ༤

9214.github.io

cryptography games
1
Casio VZ-1 algorithms

jacobvosmaer.nl

hardware reversing
2
Hobby robotics resources | Lobsters

lobste.rs

I want to build mobile robot(s) that interact with their environment. I’m looking for guidance on...
I want to build mobile robot(s) that interact with their environment. I’m looking for guidance on A platform to pick and Forums to hangout on I’d like an extensible platform that let’s me add vision, lidar, sonar, radar modules and mount custom things like an arm. I’m happy coding logic and signal processing, I just need enough I/O to interface with these modules and...

ask hardware
1
You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

willj.net

Passing strings to the Rails logger methods (eg. Rails.logger.info(…)) causes unecessary object allocations, and if you’re...
Passing strings to the Rails logger methods (eg. Rails.logger.info(…)) causes unecessary object allocations, and if you’re calling methods to generate data for your log messages then it can cause unecessary CPU work too. In this post I’ll show you how to use block syntax when using your logger with Rails to save obj...

performance ruby
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A tour of the LLVM backend | artagnon.com

artagnon.com

compilers
1
Reliable JavaScript benchmarking with Tachometer

nolanlawson.com

Writing good benchmarks is hard. Even if you grasp the basics of performance timings and measurements,...
Writing good benchmarks is hard. Even if you grasp the basics of performance timings and measurements, it’s easy to fool yourself: You weren’t measuring what you thought you were measuring. You got the answer you wanted, so you stopped looking. You didn’t clean state between tests, so you were just measuring the cac...

javascript performance
1
A Short Summary of the Last Decades of Data Management • Hannes Mühleisen • GOTO 2024

youtube.com

databases science & technology video
1
HardenedBSD July 2024 Status Report | HardenedBSD

hardenedbsd.org

Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 16:03 It has been a busy month for...
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 16:03 It has been a busy month for me personally, so not too much was accomplished in HardenedBSD. It got really hot here at home, and the server room's temperatures kept creeping higher than desired. So I spent some time trying to get temperature control more efficient a...

freebsd
1
GitHub - false-schemers/skint: Cheap and fast R7RS Scheme interpreter

github.com

lisp plt
1