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Ardour 9.8 — What's new

What's new in the latest release of Ardour: great new features, quality-of-life improvements, and bugfixes

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Talk is Cheap. Code is Cheap. Show me the Source

https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/ I've been meaning to write about this since [2026-03-20 Fri]. finally doing it. Quick note on the …

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Understanding useMemo and useCallback • Josh W. Comeau

What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.

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Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong

Your embeddings are float32. Somewhere in your app they get promoted to float64 and grow a tail of digits that mean nothing. You pay to store, ship, and parse every one of them.

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Symmetries in boolean scans

Array languages like APL are famous for using many pretty squiggles for representing built-in functions. These are called "primitives" and are different from user-defined functions, because the interpreters know about them and can do fancy optimizations...

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A Million Kakapos

Agentic coding is the hot new thing. I've been doing it since the GPT3 days back in 2021. Everyone doing it has decided that coding is now 'basically free'. Prior to this you needed great programmers to make great software. Becoming a programmer with good...

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