What does the future of work look like post-pandemic? One-third of employees would leave their current roles if remote work was no longer an option at their company. Workplace flexibility may no longer be a “bonus”, but a crucial requirement for workers across…

Russian payment services company Xsolla has fired 150 employees at once. What caused controversy wasn’t the staff reduction itself but the CEO’s letter, in which he tried to explain the reason behind this decision.

Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you

Speaking from experience — with a second chance in a software leadership position

The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…

Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code July 2021 Release (1.59)

A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience. - ravynsoft/ravynos

Earlier this year, npm indefinitely suspended their process for “adopting an abandoned package” (wiping all references to it from their documentation.) That was because of me. A thread 🧵 1/?

Skip spotify ads by automatically restarting application when ad plays - daspartho/SpotiByeAds

From all of the surprising things I made on .NET / C# / GO and other compilers, this takes the cake: I'm quitting programming; I'll see myself out; bye #dotnet

Corrections:
- 2:37 the size of the boot sector is 512 bytes, not 256
- 3:29 you can't just move 0 to the es register. you should do something like:

mov ax, 0
mov es , ax

make sure you're not losing the contents of ax, do a push/pop if you want to be safe…

Follows this logic for verifying a connection to Elasticsearch:
Before the first API request:

Make an API request to /, inspect the response:
If call to / fails with 401 or 403 pass the check and ...

Posted in r/programming by u/mbitsnbites • 128 points and 37 comments

This is an additional post in the “Go is not good” series. Go does have some nice features, hence the “The Good” part in this post, but overall I find it cumbersome and painful to use when we go beyond API or network servers (which is what it was designed…

Asra Ali, Appu Goundan

Github: https://github.com/Betapig1/Mind-Control-Drone

Rust is built around the concept of “zero cost abstraction”. The idea is that you can write human-friendly high level code and the compiler will give you for free performance at least as good as any optimized low level code you could have written yourself.…

mold: A Modern Linker 🦠. Contribute to rui314/mold development by creating an account on GitHub.

Note: On the back of some feedback I’ve created a follow-up of this post where I refine the thesis. I’ve left this post as-is for the sake of comparison

SeniorAdvisor has now secured the leaky bucket