ta-per noun :: A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. noun :: Gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object "Westmacott was standing, as rigid as a statue, in the center of the room, with a lighted taper in her right hand." -- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Read more ›
The post appeared first on A video interview with Cam Smith after his second-place at the 2026 Broken Arrow Ascent and win of the U.S. Mountain Running Championships Uphill race. by . Read more ›
Audrey Leduc won her third straight national title in the women’s 200 metres with a championship record time at the Canadian track and field championships on Sunday. Read more ›
Composable building blocks for full-stack AWS apps — define infrastructure and runtime code together with end-to-end type safety, local mocking, and native client codegen for Kotlin, Swift, and Typ... Read more ›
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the former Cabinet Secretary said leadership transitions are "enormously disruptive". Read more ›
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation. It covers universal compilers topics like intermediate representations, data flow, and “classic” optimizations as well as more research-flavored topics such as parallelization, just-in-time compilation, and garbage collection. The work consists of reading papers and open-source hacking tasks, which use LLVM and an educational IR invented just for this class. Read more ›
Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-eighth of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are entering the summer months on the Northern Hemisphere, and with that the activity generally gets a little lower. Jakarta EE is no exception. However, the work with Jakarta EE 12 continues. The specifications of Jakarta EE Core Profile are well underway and […] Read more ›
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Forget the Kokopelli Trail: there's a new multi-day epic in town, and it's chock-full of sweet, sweet singletrack. The article appeared first on . Read more ›
Pro runners now consume more carbs than ever during marathons and other endurance events, with Maurten’s ‘disappearing drink’ being the product used by the very best in the business. Read more ›
Before you pick a race date, build the routine and endurance your body needs to train for 26.2. Read more ›
‘Management has deferred affirmative long-term programming or staffing adjustments,’ the center’s director said in a court filing Read more ›
Guac is an Emulator written in golang for Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and Nintendo DS handheld consoles. The reception of the last release was amazing! This means many new faces, particularly folks without a background in clis, and config files. This release is for... Read more ›
Developer tools that verify conformance to industry specifications - before deployment, not after. Read more ›
You call an API with the MicroProfile REST Client, map the response onto a small DTO, and one day the API starts returning a few extra fields you never asked for. Does your client shrug and carry on, or does it blow up with a deserialization error? The honest answer is “it depends on your JSON provider” – and the defaults are not the same across the board. Let’s pin down what actually happens, and point to the spec or docs for each case. Introduction Imagine a small REST client. You are consu... Read more ›
These nine items make sweltering runs more manageable and save me from the treadmill’s torturous monotonyNothing screams summer Last winter, I shared that helped me log over 20 miles per week. As we shift from arctic temperatures to My running tank top: Bandit MicromeshMy running shoes: Asics Nova Blast 5 Read more ›
The post appeared first on iRunFar'a live coverage of the 2026 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent and 23k from Olympic Valley, California. by . Read more ›
GitHub is resuming enforcement of minimum version requirements for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners — and this time, the deadlines are firm. After a rocky start that included multiple delays and a temporary pause earlier this year, GitHub has published a clear enforcement timeline for both GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. […] Read more ›
The lack of proper oversight of the regional operator's work has led to problems with waste collection in Kabardino-Balkaria, the head of the republic stated. Local residents, commenting on his remarks on social media, complained that waste has not been collected in their communities for a long time. Read more ›