I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the receiving end of webmentions, from adding support for them in the first place through to fetching them at build time and rendering them server-side so the discussion section doesn’t flicker in over JS. What I’d never actually done was send the other half. Every link I’ve ever made out to another IndieWeb site has just sat there, silently not telling anyone I’d linked to them. Read more ›
tail -f for PostgreSQL — stream row changes to the terminal in real time - AndreaBeggiato/pg-tail Read more ›
A friend of mine made a cool calculator and unit converter. It parses natural English phrases like “how many inches are in 3 feet?” and “300 miles / 65 mph in hours and minutes” and “download 10GB 1Gbps”. You can access it from web (including PWA), CLI or as a library. It has a strong FOSS philosophy behind it. Read more ›
The biggest issue in font design seems to be kerning. I spend about eight times longer messing around with kerning than I do with actually making the design. Kerning is always the first thing that gets criticised; and the inevitability of 'missing one' is a huge frustration. What's the best way to ensure decent kerning? FontLab's automatic kerning of certain pairs (but not all pairs) is 'non-optimal' – but it strikes me that kerning is exactly the sort of thing that computers ought to be doin... 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 ›
Proper TCP socket splicing reduces the load on userspace processes and enables more efficient data forwarding. We realized that Linux Kernel's SOCKMAP infrastructure can be reused for this purpose. Read more ›
Even if Shor's Algorithm is now implementable inside ten years, symmetric keying should still be trustworthy if we fix RSA with PQC methods. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Read more ›
NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan driver now supports DLSS through a new Vulkan extension in Mesa 26.2, with stable release expected in August for Linux users. Read more ›
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate of TypeScript 7.0! If you haven’t been following TypeScript 7.0’s development, this release is significant in that it is built on a completely new foundation. Over the past year, we have been porting the existing TypeScript codebase from TypeScript (as a bootstrapped codebase that compiles to […] The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
The Felicia is a compact and easily towable tiny house that focuses on freedom and simplicity. The home can optionally run off-grid, making it well suited to life away from campsites and trailer parks.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home Read more ›
A free encyclopedia of philosophy for younger readers. Browse articles by subject, period, or tradition. Read more ›
Browser tools for serial consoles, BPIO2 GPIO/I2C/SPI control, firmware flashing, programming and logic analysis. Read more ›
How workplace pressure, AI hype, and silent insecurity are pushing people to pretend they understand AI. Read more ›
I just released ed25519-wasm, a small Rust crate for Ed25519 signatures in WebAssembly. The static library can also be directly linked in applications w... Read more ›
Famed short seller Andrew Left, convicted on 13 counts of securities fraud earlier this month, is off to a rocky start in his effort to sway a judge to overturn his verdict due to an unusual courtroom error. Read more ›
Recently read an interesting discussion of Marxism and Ralwsianism by Professor Joseph Heath. Some interesting narrative >So what happened to all this fe... Read more ›
It is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects. The problem Recently I was refining the … The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›