Nope,
you don't know how to validate an email address. Even
if you think you'd get the domain part right,
fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.

Posted in r/programming by u/asusmaster • 124 points and 18 comments

Player automation has always been a big concern in MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft and Runescape, and this kind of game-hacking is very different from traditional cheats in for example shooter games.

In 2020, I started writing a 3D game engine from scratch in C++. This is a post about how I added skeletal animation to it. Drake is in it, so buckle up.

Video recording of "Clean Slate", a 64 KByte realtime short film by Conspiracy. First presented at the Revision 2021 demoparty.
Now available as open-source! https://github.com/ConspiracyHu/apEx-public/

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At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims.

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Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK…

Introduction

Posted in r/programming by u/nigeltao • 126 points and 13 comments

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep and Stephen Hines, Android Team Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the securit...

#externals - Opening PHP's #internals to the outside

It's 3 a.m. the night of August 10, 2013. An anxiety attack keeps me awake.