We have the pleasure of celebrating the birthday of Blaise Pascal by announcing the release of OCaml version 5.5.0. Some of the highlights in OCaml 5.5.0 are: Module-dependent Functions Modules can now be used as function arguments in a form of lightweight…

How Wirewiki's domain-name autocomplete renders suggestions next frame for 99% of keystrokes.

If half the internet isn’t a person, how much of what my expensive analytics stack is measuring is about people at all?

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An alignment quirk on Intel and AMD CPUs: keeping a Go array 8-byte aligned (vs offset 4) makes clearing it up to 49% faster, thanks to how REP STOSQ works.

Build self-contained desktop applications from a Deno project, with framework auto-detection, hot reload, native windowing, auto-update, and cross-platform distribution.

Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.

We tweak one fair-but-different thing in each ClickBench scenario and watch the hot-run rankings reshuffle, a reminder to read benchmarks closely.

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests, but QUERY requests…

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.

Defines an application's boundary with a layer of services that
establishes a set of available operations and coordinates the
application's response in each operation.

A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire

Given an array of data, what is the slowest way to sum up the integers? Is it adding the numbers from left to right, adding them randomly, or doing something else? In this post, we are going to build a data access pattern from the ground up that sums numbers…

Join us at ModCon on August 18, 2026 in San Francisco for a full day of AI infrastructure launches, technical deep dives, hands-on demos, workshops, and networking with the developers shaping what’s next.

CORS is a browser security mechanism, not a server one. What the Origin header and preflight checks actually do, what CORS protects against, and why it is not CSRF protection.

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Please, for the love of god. Can you stop releasing breaking changes on minor releases? It's absolutely infuriating that you guys keep doing this over and over again with complete disregard for...

Break large changes into small, reviewable, stacked pull requests on GitHub.