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Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++
One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs concise and readable. Like so: Unfortu...
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6.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many...
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Formal methods and the future of programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale
The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all.
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Bab - Verifiable partial data for peer-to-peer systems.
A family of hashing functions inspired by Blake3 ad Bao, with some judicious tweaks.
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AUR REPORT THREAD - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org
Hi everyone, we’re working hard to reset/delete all malicious commits and ban the accounts. If you find more malicious packages, please **send them as a reply to this email** to keep them all in one thread. Thanks! -- tippfehlr
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There Is Life Before Main in Rust
🧠 This post is 100% human-written. Claude was used for feedback and to assist with the linker symbol diagram. Cursor was used for feedback and to ensure examples were compilable.
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agent-shell 0.55 updates
It's been a little while since my last agent-shell update, so let's go through the latest highlights as of v0.55. What's ? agent-shell is a native Ema...
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Software Is Made Between Commits - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
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Wiki - ReuseLessSoftware
Basically, supply chain attacks are increasingly becoming a problem, not really because the nature of software or software maintenance has changed (though it has), but because the cost model for sharing distributing software has changed to make it really...
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Encrypted Spaces — Research preview
An architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable.