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The fun and fascinating sides of coding.

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The early days of Linux lwn.net/SubscriberLink/92858… #programming

The early days of Linux

My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux is now a global success, [...]

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Keep the monolith, but split the workloads incident.io/blog/monolith #programming
Keep the monolith, but split the workloads | Blog

Keep the monolith, but split the workloads | Blog

Everybody loves a monolith, but you can hit issues as you scale. Learn how splitting workloads can improve your monolithic architecture's performance and scalability, and understand the trade-offs...

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Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats fsf.org/blogs/community/goog… #programming
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A proposed Stack Exchange site for programming language development is close to entering beta! area51.stackexchange.com/pro… #programming
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Python foundation slams pending EU cyber security rules theregister.com/2023/04/12/p… #programming
Python foundation slams pending EU cyber security rules

Python foundation slams pending EU cyber security rules

: Red-tape vague enough to land open source volunteers in hot water for iffy code

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Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Frontend to TypeScript sentry.engineering/blog/slow… #JavaScript
Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Frontend to TypeScript

Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Frontend to TypeScript

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The Free Software Foundation is dying drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2… #programming
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Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-… #programming

‘Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship’ * TorrentFreak

The owner of the company held liable for hosting youtube-dl warns that the "devastating" verdict opens the door to privatized censorship.

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Limiting concurrency in Python asyncio: the story of async imap_unordered() death.andgravity.com/limit-c… #python

Limiting concurrency in Python asyncio: the story of async imap_unordered()

So, you're doing some async stuff, repeatedly, hundreds of thousands of times. How do you *not* do it all at once? Hint: asyncio.Semaphore is not always the best way, despite what Stack Overflow may...

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Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-e… #programming
Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition

Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition

While training small neural networks to perform binary addition, a surprising solution emerged that allows the network to solve the problem very effectively. This post explores the mechanism behind...

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Amazon, Meta, and other tech giants are cutting middle management to be more efficient. It's a risky move that could backfire. businessinsider.com/middle-m… #programming

Amazon, Meta, and other tech giants are cutting middle management to be more efficient. It's a...

As Meta, Amazon, Salesforce and other tech firms prioritize efficiency, they're cutting out middle management. Experts say it's not so simple.

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Nolibc: a minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel lwn.net/Articles/920158/ #programming

Nolibc: a minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel

The kernel project does not host much user-space code in its repository, but there are exceptio [...]

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React, Visualized react.gg/visualized #JavaScript
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Bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing samwho.dev/load-balancing/ #programming
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OpenGL is not dead, long live Vulkan accidentalastro.com/2023/04/… #programming
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Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack thehackernews.com/2023/04/ha… #programming
Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack

Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack

npm Repository Hit by DoS Attack! Bogus packages flood the open-source ecosystem, causing service instability & spreading malware. Keep your system s

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The Rust Trademark Borrow Checker : Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks developers.slashdot.org/stor… #programming
Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks - Slashdot

Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks - Slashdot

"Rust" and "Cargo" are registered trademarks held by the Rust Foundation — the independent non-profit supporting Rust's maintainers. In August 1,000 people responded to the foundation's Trademark...

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Ruff: one Python linter to rule them all blog.jerrycodes.com/ruff-the… #python
Ruff: one Python linter to rule them all

Ruff: one Python linter to rule them all

Ruff, a ridiculously fast Python linter, has been gaining some serious traction recently. No wonder as it's providing close to feature parity with a dozen of linting tools most of which were previo...

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EU petition to create an open source AI model openpetition.eu/petition/onl… #programming
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The OpenAI Cookbook shares example code for accomplishing common tasks with the OpenAI API github.com/openai/openai-coo… #programming
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