It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. As I think you can see for yourself below…

Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel

Difference in software engineering culture and how they operate

A tree needs many roots.

Finally! .NET 10 is just around the corner, so it′s time to set off fireworks and celebrate the anniversary of our favorite platform! This article explores JIT improvements, the standard library...

Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) certainly has become a buzzword so this serves as a quick guide or reminder of why IaC is so important.

Whenever I think about optimizing certain data query, be it SQL (mostly) or NoSQL, I find it useful to think about these problems as search space problems. In other words, how much data need to be scanned/checked in order for my query to be fulfilled?

The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky

Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feedback has helped shape this release more than any before. Since the introduction of the Insiders Channel…

IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent

At Octomind, we build AI agents - but our code is still mostly written by humans. We love LLMs and use them everywhere we can, from our product to our internal workflows. But despite all the hype, we’re nowhere near “agents writing most of our code.”

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...

The core idea is to put the business domain at the center. We don’t want to structure our app in “technology layers” like database…

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Sitting too much increases your risk of death, especially in middle and lower income countries









Spending a long time sitting each day increases your risk of heart disease and death, accordi

What is TCP? This post is an exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough. A simple TCP explanation.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes VS Code Version: Code 1.106.0 OS Version: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100 Build 26100 Steps to Reproduce: Open VS Code ??? VS Code randomly si...

multi silicon ai is coming

This post is a deep dive into how we improved the P95 latency of an API endpoint from 5s to 0.3s using a niche little computer science trick called a bloom filter.

His legal first name is literally one letter: "A." But the airline won't accept it, forcing him to use "AA" instead. What might seem like a small detail is creating serious travel chaos—risking issues with passports, points transfers, security checks, and…