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While investigating a performance issue in a library I am working on, I noticed that parsing a particular document (warning: very large file) causes the program to spend a lot of time in memchr (ro...

A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) consists of an abstract machine, or engine, that Java-based applications run on.

Edit 2021-10-27: Indie Stone released Project Zomboid build 41.56, and at first look I think they've fixed the bug correctly.  I'll write a ...

Today's episode is about remote work. Well, sort of. I found someone with a different perspective on remote work and a fantastic story to share, Paul Lutus. I think that he might be the original remote software developer. He left California behind for a lower…

Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.

Browser monoculture bad

Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something…

Brave and Firefox implement support for the microsoft-edge: URL scheme. Brave to hijack Bing search links. Plus, the history of all this anti-competitive crap.

Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…

Learn how to save money and improve your developer workflow by setting up a pull-through cache for Docker Hub. This article provides step-by-step i...

Making the Python interpreter faster

The sirens were place a couple years ago when I received a bug report claiming that I caused 100% CPU util on a VM when it should have been idle. I was suspicious at first because I try my best to avoid patterns such as while(true) and for(;;). The support...

Twitch.tv got leaked. Like, the entire website; Source code with comments for the website and various console/phone versions, refrences to an unreleased steam competitor, payouts, encrypted passwords that kinda thing. Might wana change your passwords.

We now support geospatial data in our time series database by adding geohashes to our type system along with language features to support common operations using this type.

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Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don't yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records…

Tutorial: Writing a "bare metal" operating system for Raspberry Pi 4 - babbleberry/rpi4-osdev

Fingers 'server config' error that allowed 'malicious third party' to peruse files