Basic websites have one job: respond to user requests. Over time, these requests are becoming more demanding and our latency requirements are becoming more strict. In this post, My preferred method of handling demanding requests more efficiently: don't complete…

Discover the bizarre world of INTERCAL, a parody programming language that will leave you scratching your head. Then, delve into the blurred line b...

I’m a 19-year-old girl in Gaza, Palestine studying Computer Engineering who just was selected for a summer internship at Google and…

Learn more about how the same JSON document can be parsed with different values across microservices, leading to a variety of potential security risks.

UPDATE:
AI was able to surpass the World Record in my new video:
https://youtu.be/82sTpO_EpEc

AI bot learns to play QWOP like a human and achieves a top 10 speedrun (1m 8s). Trained using Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning.

Writeup:
https:…

Google Analytics is only very superficially free. You should not be using it. Here's why.

Long story short, the fox is here to stay and for our Nightly users we’re bringing back a special version of an older logo, as a treat.

We’re used to medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, but one based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 took it much further.

We continue our walk on the path leading to Vim mastery by reviewing crazy Vim functionalities which will increase even more your productivity.

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Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years.

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In programming, clout is everything. You wouldn’t listen to Dan Abramov if he didn’t invent React. You wouldn’t watch Kelsey Hightower’s…

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GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re

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“Programming Languages” Series on Coursera is IMO, one of the best classes on foundational programming language paradigms. I strongly recommend it. You’ll be writing your own mini interpreter in Racket. Here is a full course review. Do you have your own favorite…

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...