How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.

In a recent study titled Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy.

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In this article I’ll share some tips and advice about HTML.

I am old enough to remember the publication of the Strawman, Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, and Steelman specifications for a new computer language in the mid 1970s — the language that became Ada. A few years later I read C. A. R. Hoare's Turing Award speech…

Hello, long time no see :) We obviously have a lot to talk about when it comes to the game changes we recently did, or plan to do, but we don't want to share any of it yet. Yet, there is currently a topic very relevant to us and we can share it without…

Thread by @fstokesman: Seeing the HBO email mishap got me thinking about about the fuck up I once made that I still think about to this day. A 🧵 that I hope will illustrate some of the...

Super Mario World (SNES) Widescreen Project. Contribute to VitorVilela7/wide-snes development by creating an account on GitHub.

We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…

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WILMINGTON, N.C.—Wayne Nutt is an engineer. He graduated with a degree in engineering and worked most of his career in North Carolina without ever needing […]

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Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Apple’s iPhone is the best selling phone in the premium segment and it continues to broken records with its flagship design and performance but now serious issues have been issued to all Apple iPhone users. A new…

List of free stuff for developer by developer to use. This is a collective list of useful services for developer you can use for your next MVP or prototpying your idea.

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It’s well established that estimating software projects is hard. This is true, but you should learn how anyway.

Most open source time series databases struggle with high-cardinality time series data. Learn more about high-cardinality and how to benchmark database performance with this type of data.

I'm super enthusiastic about Julia after running this comparison of Julia vs Numpy vs Fortran, for performance and code simplicity.

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