System Architecture

Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on the MS-DOS operating systems. It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3,[1] and was produced from 1984 to 1992. Lotus Jazz on the Apple Macintosh was a sibling product.

I've finally gotten around to trying to scan the barcodes on all of my books. I'm using Library Thing, even though it is trying really hard to be some kind of Clown-based gamified "goodreads" fucktangle when all I want is a local catalog. Anyway, what's the deal with every single paperback book released in the 1990s having a barcode on the back cover that is useless for scanning? Most of the ...

How Postgres’ v7 UUIDs are made monotonic, and why that’s a great feature.

In the past, many code editors were built just for the specific language, and to provide rich and smart code editing, tight integration…

an ever-changing generated on the spot

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Nobody is “taught” how to use Facebook.

Learning to fly with digital wings

Welcome to a world of ordered thinking...

Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler

Interactive environement for the Ludus experimental programming language

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

The Ludus programming language.

Compare Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Apache Hudi and learn how to choose the right open table format for your data lakehouse.

Wvlet is a new cross-SQL flow-style query language

We are excited to announce the release of Wvlet version 2024.9, an open-source flow-style query language designed to help users to write efficient queries for SQL engines. You can try Wvlet, pronounced as weave-let, directly in your web browser at Wvlet Playground. The source code of Wvlet compiler is available at GitHub wvlet/wvlet.

If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...

Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …

A Linux kernel module that implements the Homa transport protocol. - PlatformLab/HomaModule

One of my readers asked for my opinion about the provocative “It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter” article by prof. John Ousterhout. I started reading it, found too many things that didn’t make sense, and decided to ignore it as another attempt of a proverbial physicist solving hard problems in someone else’s field. However, pointers to that article kept popping up, and I eventually realized it was a position paper in a long-term process that included conference talks, interviews and keynote speeches, so I decided to take another look at the technical details.

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