The investigation into why the Hakuto-R lander crashed into the moon last month after an otherwise perfect mission has revealed the answer: The software encountered unexpected terrain and didn't believe what the sensors were showing, so it started ignoring…

Khan Academy's switch from a Python 2 monolith to a services-oriented backend written in Go.

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Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strang…

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP.
A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed
content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the
result of that processing. This is similar to POST…

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like...

An ode to Lua

building the real-time chat service

Deno 1.34 improves NPM and Node.js compatibility and adds support for Globs, TLS certificates, and more.

A description of the techniques used by Quake to render a fully 3D game on original Pentium hardware.

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00:35 Polygons in BSP trees
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When people say “debuggers are useless and using logging and unit-tests is much better,” I suspect many of them think that debuggers can only put breakpoints on certain lines, step-step-step through the code, and check variable values. While any reasonable…

Toyota joins EV push with plan to retrain 9,000 workers as software engineers

Jimmy Koppel wrote a thread about inheritance:
"The Flaws of Inheritance" by @CodeAesthetic1 is beautiful, as always.Problem though, is that none of the thin...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it will require every account that manages a project on the platform to have two-factor authentication (2FA) turned on by the end of the year.

In the corner of our R&D office space, you’ll find racks full of devices, routers, switches, boards, and all sorts of gadgets, all stacked next to each other on long bare metal shelves. From afar, this may look just like a typical case of not-so-well-organized…

A fun game to help you learn and practice CSS selectors.

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In this article, you will find some features of C++17 that can also be helpful in the embedded world.

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