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The Age of the Amplifier
As we’ve noted more than a few times before, for most of the 20th century AT&T’s Bell Labs was the premier industrial research lab in the US.
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Hoot 0.9.0 released! — Spritely Institute
We are excited to announce the release of Hoot 0.9.0! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser!
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Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
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Classic 7 - Your PC, resimplified.
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 modification designed to look 1:1 with Windows 7.
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Genode - Genode News
Sculpt OS 26.04 gives the user unprecedented transparency and interactive control over all components underpinning the operating system.
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So you want to deploy FN-DSA
FN-DSA (née Falcon) is a proposed post-quantum signature standard that keeps polarizing engineers. Cryptography engineers on the one hand, tasked with potentially implementing this monstrosity, hate it with a passion. Protocol engineers on the other hand,...
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5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake | Wasp
After 5 years and $5M building Wasp, we're replacing our custom config language with TypeScript. Here's why we thought a new language was a good idea, what we learned, and why TypeScript won.
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Catching Typos on My Website with Browser Testing
One neat thing about Bombadil’s specification language is that it’s plain TypeScript, with access to external NPM packages. I’ve written a specification that spell-checks my website — what you’re reading now — and I want to share how that turned out.
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NGINX Rift: Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability | depthfirst
We used the depthfirst system to analyze the NGINX source code, and it autonomously discovered 4 remote memory corruption issues, including a critical heap buffer overflow introduced in 2008. We further investigated the exploitability of the issues, and...
Topics: Security
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Pyrefly v1.0 is here! | Pyrefly
Pyrefly has reached stable version 1.0 status, read about the new features and how to get started.
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How (and why) rqlite takes control of the SQLite Write-Ahead Log – Philip O'Toole
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, fault-tolerant relational database built on SQLite and Raft. Version 10 is out now. rqlite has a particular relationship with the SQLite Write-Ahead Log (WAL). SQLite, left to itself, manages its own WAL: it checkpoints...
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases