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Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale

medium.com

By: Brie Bunge and Sharmila JesupaulIntroductionAt Airbnb, we’ve recently adopted Bazel — Google’s open source build...
By: Brie Bunge and Sharmila JesupaulIntroductionAt Airbnb, we’ve recently adopted Bazel — Google’s open source build tool–as our universal build system across backend, web, and iOS platforms. This post will cover our experience adopting Bazel for Airbnb’s large-scale (over 11 million lines of code) web monorepo. We’...

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'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

404media.co

foia privacy
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fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat

dolthub.com

String concatenation isn't the most elegant looking code: getFieldName := gf.tableName + "+" + gf.ColName But...
String concatenation isn't the most elegant looking code: getFieldName := gf.tableName + "+" + gf.ColName But it's quite a bit faster than fmt.Sprintf, which arguably looks more organized: getFieldName := fmt.Sprintf("%s+%s", gf.tableName, gf.ColName) We are not the first to notice this. But we recently got bitten b...

go
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Playing Bad Apple over RSS

ersei.net

bad apple javascript php rss
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Announcing .NET 9 - .NET Blog

microsoft.com

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure,...
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of thousands of developers from around the world. This new release includes thousands of performance, security, and funct...

dotnet
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3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering now freely available for download | Light Blue Touchpaper

lightbluetouchpaper.org

book release security
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Typed ENV Vars for Valid Environments from Dev to Production • RUNME

runme.dev

compsci devops docs as code operations practices
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Using portable SIMD in stable Rust

pythonspeed.com

In a previous post we saw that you can speed up code significantly on a single...
In a previous post we saw that you can speed up code significantly on a single core using SIMD: Single Instruction Multiple Data. These specialized CPU instructions allow you to, for example, add 4 values at once with a single instruction, instead of the usual one value at a time. The performance improvement you get...

performance rust
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Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla

ahal.ca

vcs
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Hot Tub Monitoring with Home Assistant and ESPHome

jnsgr.uk

This year we put a wood-fired hot tub in our back garden. It’s a total indulgence...
This year we put a wood-fired hot tub in our back garden. It’s a total indulgence and a real treat. I originally purchased the tub for my wife, but I must admit to having grown quite fond of it myself!The tub itself is made from Canadian Redwood Cedar. The photo below was taken shortly after it was assembled, so the...

linux programming
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Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0

jepsen.io

databases distributed testing
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Rust needs an official specification - Blog - Tweede golf

tweedegolf.nl

rust
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NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board

simonevellei.com

This is the sequel to the previous post FreeBSD on a ROCK64 Board. Long story short,...
This is the sequel to the previous post FreeBSD on a ROCK64 Board. Long story short, I had the chance to resurrect 4 single-board computers that were collecting dust in my office. I decided to install FreeBSD on one of them and it was a success. This time I will show you how and why I installed NetBSD on a second RO...

experiment freebsd gateway iot netbsd
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How I ship projects at big tech companies

seangoedecke.com

practices
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AI-3: There is no road from here to there

suttacentral.net

Note: I have reworded this essay following feedback in the comments. Thanks to all commentators! In...
Note: I have reworded this essay following feedback in the comments. Thanks to all commentators! In the last couple of essays, I have considered the use of AI as applied to Buddhist texts. This is, of course, an extremely small subset of a much larger industry. From now I will be taking a look at the larger picture ...

ai philosophy
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Attack of the Evil Baristas!

medium.com

(I don’t think that was a Roger Corman film, but it should have been!)I use the...
(I don’t think that was a Roger Corman film, but it should have been!)I use the term “hacklore” to refer to the urban legends surrounding cybersecurity. Hacklore is everywhere, and this holiday season, you’re bound to hear it nonstop: “The Russians will load your phone with malware if you scan QR codes!” or “Hackers...

security
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The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

ankush.dev

historical
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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

challahscript.com

databases
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Git and jujutsu: in miniature

lottia.net

vcs
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VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users

vmware.com

virtualization
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Shae Erisson's blog - The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.

scannedinavian.com

culture show
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The CVM Algorithm

buttondown.com

databases
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Sensibly Default

blwt.io

There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least...
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.GraphQL Is Insecure By DefaultWell, a...

practices
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Next Steps on the Rust Trademark Policy | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

Nov. 6, 2024 · the Leadership Council As many of you know, the Rust language trademark...
Nov. 6, 2024 · the Leadership Council As many of you know, the Rust language trademark policy has been the subject of an extended revision process dating back to 2022. In 2023, the Rust Foundation released an updated draft of the policy for input following an initial survey about community trademark priorities from ...

law rust
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