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The tenth OpenPGP email summit

The OpenPGP Email Summit is an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related [...]

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Why Gentoo?

Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo kn…

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Clojure on Fennel part three: parsing

part one: persistent data structures part two: immutable.fnl optimizations The two previous posts were not related to the compiler itself, but were kicked off by the start of the compiler development. I’d say this project was the reason that I made proper...

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WP23 – WordPress News

Last week, we shipped WordPress 7 to the world. In seven days, 46% of all WordPresses, tens of millions across countless different hosting environments, are already on 7.0, auto-updated with no breakage. From a Raspberry Pi to the most secure sites in the...

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Martin Uecker

Nested functions are extremely useful, which is why basically any computer language since ALGOL60 has them. Except C.

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A Love Letter to Neovim | Caio Bianchi

I started using Vim in 2011. Not because I was trying to make a point, and definitely not because I knew what I was doing. I was probably following some blog post, copying a .vimrc, and wondering why pressing j moved the cursor instead of typing a letter.

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Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

I recently jailbroke my 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite. While my motivation probably should have been "breaking free from Amazon's clammy and tightening grip", the truth is I wanted a way to use it as a clock on my nightstand. I found this project and...

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CSCI 1377: Tools for Thought - S26

A course on the past, present, and future of software for augmenting intelligence at Brown University.

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Making wl_shm fast

While most new applications use the GPU for rendering to achieve better performance and battery life, there are some new applications and a lot of older applications that still use CPU rendering. More specifically relevant for KDE, while QtQuick is GPU...