With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.

Posted in r/programming by u/fagnerbrack • 102 points and 69 comments

This is a typing interface for an Xbox controller similar to the one I put together for a Steam controller: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamControl...

The code is available on Github: https://github.com/bbbales2/xbox_keyb...
There is a Reddit thread for discussion:…

Concurrency and parallelism are two terms often used in relation to multithreaded applications. This tutorial explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Posted in r/programming by u/iamkeyur • 2,278 points and 780 comments

Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has bee

Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!

Well this is interesting. I’ve got an animated gif that I can open up in Acorn on x86, and it uses about 360MB of memory. I open the same image on Apple Silicon, and it takes up 35.51 GIGABYTES. Methinks there’s a memory leak in CG* somewhere.

A divide is growing between workers and management over the return to the office and other issues.

Emulators So… what is an emulator? Let’s say you want to play an old game from the MS-DOS era. You have the DUKE3D.EXE file, you launch it and …nothing happens. But why? Old syste…

Posted in r/programming by u/speckz • 105 points and 6 comments

Example Code: https://gist.github.com/markv12/ac4040de9abbc9abfb8f08f99b6d92cc
I've been using C# for a long time but I never quite understood the differences between classes and structs. I decided to do a deep dive and ended up learning a lot more than I…

Posted in r/programming by u/sportifynews • 477 points and 86 comments

Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine.
I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational…

If you have (polite and reasonable) questions about the Microsoft tools and tech of the 90s and beyond, retired operating system developer Davepl is here to answer your questions!
Join me live and ask away!
Leave me an upvote if you plan to be there so I…

An experimental container runtime written in Rust. Contribute to utam0k/youki development by creating an account on GitHub.

...the cat that has a habit of singing while coding. Meow.