The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing

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A trip through HotSpot's C2 branch-to-cmov heuristic: it measures branch bias, not predictability, and in a tight loop that mismatch is worth up to 2.9x.

Reviving Roedy Green's Mini PAD Submitter 23.6 for the modern web. Restores HTTPS, TLS/SNI compatibility and brings a forgotten Java utility back to life. - lexvalo/mini-pad-submitter-revived

What happens when a database engineer spends 13 years on SQL Server and then starts working on Postgres? In Episode 41 of Talking Postgres, Distinguished Engineer Panagiotis “Panos” Antonopoulos of...

From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, Java's journey is one of radical innovation, strategic pivots, and enduring community strength.

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Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access…

Based on prior art: [Fil-C](https://fil-c.org/)

Currently Zig has:

```zig
pub const Optimize = enum {
/// Safety checks enabled. Optimize for bug detection, accurate debug info,
/// and compilation speed (in that order).
debug,
/// Safety…

For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.

An audit of 445 NixOS modules shows the cost of making configuration and secrets share one interface.

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The built-in Date API is full of traps: unreliable parsing, mutation, timezone confusion, and broken arithmetic. Here's what it's actually doing, and how Temporal finally fixes it.

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Does AI really make it possible for anyone to create apps? Can anyone really become a developer?

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Walk through the C compilation pipeline: preprocessor, compiler, assembler, and linker. Start with a normal hello world, inspect macros and generated assembly, and end by producing a running binary that has no main() function.

In the prequel, we introduced Neptune, a Direct3D protocol forwarding layer for VirtIO. Neptune allowed us to serialize Direct3D API calls across the hypervisor boundary and this allowed us to run Wine games on a Linux guest with a Linux host faster than…