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Jira is Turing-Complete
Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian's project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. Existing claims point vaguely at automation features without exhibiting a reduction. This article supplies a proof, with setup instructions and execution trace.
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C Constructs That Still Don’t Work in C++ — and a Few That Changed | Josh Lospinoso
A 2026 sequel to C Constructs That Don't Work in C++: what still breaks, what C++20 changed, and what C23 changed.
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Cuneiforth: A Forth for your Chifir
You and your team of 23rd century archaeologists have been digging for days with no result, but it seems your efforts have finally been rewarded. You stand before what looks to be a rusty shipping container with large letters scratched into its side. The...
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Dropping Privileges in Go
Computer programs may do lots of things, both intended and unintended. What they can do is limited by their privileges. Since most operating systems execute programs as a certain user, the program has all the user’s precious privileges.
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Baby's First DDS Signal Generator
The most essential instruments of an electronics lab: a powersupply, an oscilloscope,and a signal generator. Equipped with the first two, I decided to trymy ...
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Highest Random Weight in Elixir | jola.dev
A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.
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HP QuickWeb, Singular And Pointless | Gekk
HP got so twisted up in the late 2000s push for fast bootup that they invented completely new ways to waste developers' time
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mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
Mvm is a fast interpreter and virtual machine for Go and beyond. Run Go programs without a compiler, embed it, debug it.
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That one time I used Go panics for flow control
How our protagonist discovered that a key service that powers our support was absurdly vulnerable to overload, and what we did to fix it.