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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter...

Topics: Security

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WASI 0.3 Launched

WASI 0.3 is official, and async is now native to WebAssembly Components. The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WASI onto the WebAssembly Component Model’s async primitives. The 0.3.0 specification is now stable, and runt...

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Meet the new Sovereign Tech Fellows | Sovereign Tech Agency

After a successful pilot program in 2025, the Sovereign Tech Fellowship is expanding. The 2026 cohort brings together 14 maintainers, community managers, and technical writers working across Rust, Python, and a range of other critical open source...

Topics: Security

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Nix Flakes and their Guix Equivalents

A comprehensive mapping between Nix flakes and GNU Guix's mechanisms — for Nix folks curious about Guix, and Guix folks wondering what flakes even are.

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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

Postgres 19 brings native temporal table support. Shaun Thomas covers WITHOUT OVERLAPS, FOR PORTION OF, and temporal foreign keys - and what's still missing.

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Designing Lispy DSLs, part 1: SCSS | More magic

Hi, I'm Peter Bex, a Scheme and free software enthusiast from the Netherlands. See my user page on the CHICKEN wiki or my git server for some of my projects.