Hi 👋 As the sponsor of @colesbury’s PEP, I’d like to invite you all to discuss the proposal to solve the biggest scalability limitation of CPython by making it possible to build a version of the interpreter which doesn’t use the Global Interpreter Lock.…

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

Understand corporate legibility through the lens of a software engineer.

Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed…

Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic. Also check out my new project, https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS - Barre/privaxy

For a data format, yaml is extremely complicated. It aims to be a human-friendly format, but in striving for that it introduces so much complexity, that I would argue it achieves the opposite result. Yaml is full of footguns and its friendliness is deceptive.…

How recent improvements may shake up perceptions of Apple’s long-derided browser
Although not widely remarked upon, 2022 was a transformative year for Apple’s popular web browser.

In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.

5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet.

Identity as a “last tribe” is simplification and erasure, indigenous group says.

Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...

Dark web forum posts indicate that low- or even no-skill threat actors have figured out how to manipulate ChatGPT instructions to get it to produce basic but viable malware.

Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.

Black Parrot Labs Blog: When designing an application with JPA/Hibernate, I’ve encountered a common pattern that suggests developers should channel as many of their interactions as possible with their database via their persistence entities and ORM, avoiding…

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There are hundreds and hundreds of blogs about how programming interviews suck, how they ask trivia questions or try to ask questions that only fresh graduates would know well (sort binary trees is the classical…

First post in a multi-part series on writing an operating system using components of other systems, such as MINIX. This post describes a small bootloader in detail and steps through debugging it on bare metal (QEMU). The sample code is hosted here.

Early stage technology decisions must be, uncomfortably, a means to an end.

Read the complete incident report from CircleCI’s January 4, 2023 security alert.

An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable - juspay/hyperswitch

Hello! I’ve been thinking about writing a zine about how things are represented on computers in bytes, so I was thinking about floating point.