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Blorp - Overview

Blorp compiles to C, so idiomatic Blorp code is intended to run within range of hand-written C. Below is a recent benchmark snapshot from the Blorp benchmark suite, run on an M4 MacBook Air. It's not meant to be authoritative, but shows broadly where blorp...

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croft

croft - VSCode-style TUI written in Rust

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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser. Preventing access to quite few websites (previously, but it even went worse lately). Turns out it's...

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Alex Tardif: Graphics Programmer

I do not represent my employer or anyone other than myself, and I'm speaking from the perspective of a game developer - one who joined this industry to bring joy to other people as was done for me. I definitely see the technological value of AI, but the...

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Programming

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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

Claude

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GitHub - cloud-gouv/securix: Sécurix is a NixOS-based secure operating system tailored for small to medium-sized teams. It provides a minimal, hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations to ensure operational security and compliance.

Sécurix is a NixOS-based secure operating system tailored for small to medium-sized teams. It provides a minimal, hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations to ensure operational security and compliance. -...

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