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Mandy: ActivityPub on Goblins — Spritely Institute

ActivityPub is the protocol that powers the Fediverse. Not only does it allow different instances of the same app to federate with one another, it also allows different apps to federate. For example, a post on a video hosting app could federate to a...

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Hauleth's blog - How do I write Elixir tests?

Blog about BEAM, Rust, fantasy & stuff How do I write Elixir tests? Personal guides for writing tests that are readable and maintainable. Stuff to use, stuff to avoid, and how to organize stuff. Furthermore, I think that mocking must be destroyed.

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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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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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httpx2! | Blog

Yesterday the Pydantic team started httpx2, another fork of httpx

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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,...