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...

Welcome back to another release of Windows Terminal! This release migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.6, which includes all of the features from this previous blog post except for the settings UI. Windows Terminal Preview will move to version 1.7, which…

Long before I was offloading brainpower to Stack Overflow, I sought to offload it for my future self (ahem, and teammates of course). I have a book to thank for this. Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think."  It's a critique of complex user interfaces. Steve…

I'm not really a big gamer, but lately, I've fallen down this rabbit hole into the world of Casey Muratori, and this project that he started on Twitch in 2014. He is building a video game from scratch and explaining it all as he goes along. Casey is a professional…

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This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Microsoft online services that might have allowed anyone to takeover any Microsoft account without consent permission. Microsoft security team patched the issue and rewarded me $50,000 as a part of their…

Many states using antiquated programming languages for their unemployment systems ie COBOL, a half-century old language. These sometimes can't handle the demand, suffer lack of programmers, and require extensive reprogramming for the smallest of changes.…