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A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.

An indie gamedev studio proudly based in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, USA.

Most services expect a user will have a phone number available, but many make the mistake of treating phone numbers as unique life-long identifiers. This is a privacy nightmare.

How OpenAI is turning software development into an AI-driven process where engineers guide AI teams, set goals, and achieve faster results.

On August 26, 2024, the National Security Agency (NSA) released a digital copy of a videotaped lecture, "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" that Rear Adm. Grace Hopper gave to

Crypto offers agents a pathway into the economy.

In February 2021, a hacker exfiltrated 70 GB of data from Gab, the social network: user posts, private messages, hashed passwords, and profile information. The vulnerability was a SQL injection introd

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

30 years of Windows widgets — from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.

What if AI agents could run entirely in your browser? Not just the UI part—the actual model inference, agent logic, and response generation, all happening locally without a single API call.

How good is the random_page_cost default, and should you lower it on modern flash storage?

So the “Future of Life Institute” just published an open letter arguing for the “AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4“. That letter has (at the point of me writing this) 1123 signatures, some of them by very respected and knowledgable people. Which […]

Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions and individuals to organize and try to shine some light onto important issues. We’ve seen many such things in the […]

I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

A first-principles guide to process-based concurrency — what makes BEAM different, how OTP encodes resilience, and why everyone keeps reinventing it.

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

Two years ago, I wrote about managing twenty microservices at Qantas with a small team. The problem was keeping services in sync, coordinating changes across system boundaries, fighting the entropy of a codebase that grew faster than our ability to reason about it. Many years before my time, someone had

Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew Halaney

Example of using bash shell parameter expansions. A little script that compiles a LaTeX file to an SVG file.

We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: a href="https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/21/ how-fast-do-browsers-correct-utf-16-strings/"my blog post/a It will … Continue reading You can use newline characters in URLs

Discover how physical AI foundation models are moving beyond chatbots to power autonomous robotics in the real world. Explore LBM, VLA, and edge computing.

This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

What does a 99.9% SLA really mean? Learn how to read the fine print of availability commitments, with real-world examples from AWS, Google Cloud, and Mailjet.

A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.