Today’s Issue: Designing Error Types in Rust Libraries, 10 Years of Betting on Rust, and C++ to Rust Phrasebook

Everybody has heard of the leetcode style interview tests, and given their prominence in the tech news recently, you won’t be surprised to find out that this is another story highlighting their inherent flaws.
Recently, after a remote interview on teams,…

From rate limits to no limits: How IPv6's massive address space and a crafty botguard bypass left every Google user's phone number vulnerable

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. - apple/containerization

Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app

Coding the Dual EC Crypto Backdoor in Python

How we got here, what’s broken, and where to go from here.

by Fabien Chouteau – Jan 30, 2023. Today I want to share a great story about why many NVIDIA products are now running formally verified SPARK code. This blog post is in part a teaser for the case study that NVIDIA and AdaCore published today. Our journey…

Despite headlines that AI is improving developer productivity, only 6% of engineering leaders have seen a significant productivity boost.

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Rotations often get weirdly complicated - even when it feels like they should be simple. To add insult to injury, the commonly accepted "best solution" to 3D rotations are quaternions, an arcane mathematical construct very few dare unpack. So why are they…

The existing NOTES-ANSI.md are renamed to NOTES-C99.md and updated
accordingly. INSTALL.md lists C-99 compiler instead of ANSI-C now.
Also moving from ANSI-C to C-99 warrants updates to NEWS.md and...

We wanted to congratulate you on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! ➜ curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id": 1000000000, "node_id": "R...

This year, computer scientist Ryan Williams showed an astounding connection between space and time. He thought it was too strange to be true. But, it is.

It’s about space, time, fundamental constraints, a 50-year-old mystery, and magical pebbles that resolved…

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Deep dive into the IAM failure that took down Google Cloud, cascaded into Cloudflare and Anthropic, and rippled across dozens of internet services.

When applying for 100+ jobs nets you 4 interviews — and 3 of those companies admit they’re not actually hiring

An identity and access management failure within Google Cloud earlier today caused widespread service disruptions across a range of internet services, including portions of Cloudflare Inc., Google Wor

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