Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code November 2020 Release (1.52)

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics.

The decoded text from the Zodiac Killer reads: “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. ... I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice (sic) all the...

Posted in r/programming by u/mttd • 131 points and 6 comments

My memory is awful. In all aspects of life. But as a software engineer, I don’t rely on my memory. In fact, it’s the opposite. I rely on my lack of memory. We live in a world where there is too much… too many commands, too much syntax, too many docs, etc.…

Our database's network stack handles multiple TCP connections on a single thread without garbage collection for reliably ingesting time series data.

After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac...

Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.

Dockerfile best-practices for writing production-worthy Docker images. - hexops-graveyard/dockerfile

This video we are setting up our workspace and downloading everything that is required to get our development up and running.
If it all works correctly, QEMU will start in a UEFI shell, which will then load our .EFI application, printing HelloWorld! to the…

The Source Code to Windows Task Manager is featured in Part 3 of the series. Featuring the actual source code to the Windows Task Manager, retired Microsoft engineer Davepl walks us through the code and explains how important sections function.

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Let’s try to clarify some things and get facts straight.

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This post will show you how to crawl the web using Python. Web crawling is a powerful technique to collect data from the web by finding all the URLs for one or multiple domains

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Vimeo has been using PHP in production for over 15 years. Find out how we keep a million lines of PHP in check!

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Short trailer Walkthrough and technical details Update 31th May 2021: The source code for SuperRT has now been released.
I’m pleased to finally have some results to show for a project I’ve been working on in my spare time…