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Git Is Not Fine

The thing about jj is that I’m in love with it. I love it, and I’m convinced that you’ll love it too. I think that if jj doesn’t have any dealbreakers for you, you should give it a serious shot.

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5× faster fast_blur in image-rs – Arthur Pastel

Improving performance by moving the inner loop to integer accumulators, and replacing per-pixel division with a precomputed reciprocal that runs as a multiply and a shift.

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Welcome to ORDER BY jungle

Bare names and expressions in ORDER BY go through two different parsers in PostgreSQL. The boundary between them is one if-statement old enough to vote, and it shows up in places you would not expect.

Databases

Databases

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Open Source Resistance

A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.

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mitigations

mitigations - Ansible role to apply security bug mitigations

Security

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why use F# for scripting and automation? | ian erik varatalu

i've been writing F# for a while now, and i keep coming back to it for scripting and automation tasks. not because it's trendy (it definitely isn't), but because it really makes my life easier. let me explain why.