Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.

A lot of software teams fall into hero culture despite the best of intentions. Here are some insights on how to prevent it.

New Package Documentation pkg.odin-lang.org

Credit to Brad Sams for first reporting on this, Alongside the Windows 11 announcement today, Rish Tandon, the CVP Engineering for Microsoft Teams, posted on Twitter about changes coming to...

With today's SDL2 Git, Wayland is now preferred over X.Org/X11 by default without having to set the SDL video driver environment variable.

In this video, I'd like to clarify and further explain: Using NFTs to own ingame objects is an unnecessarily inefficient byproduct of a larger scam.

You can see the original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzup7XDyq8

I apologize for the low…

Declarative Programming is by definition about representing programs in terms of logic instead of control flow. But how?

Refs: nodejs/undici#1183
/cc @nodejs/undici
This adds a --experimental-fetch flag that installs the fetch, Request, Response and Headers globals.

QR codes are really popular lately due in part to the pandemic. As such, I thought it would be fun to learn more about them and ended up finding a cool way to insert images into QR codes. I made a website to do so. Although I did find another website that…

Stack Overflow have announced they are going to kill off sunset their popular Jobs product. In this post, I talk about what Jobs was, why it was great, and why so many (myself included) will be sad…

Posted in r/programming by u/fagnerbrack • 126 points and 15 comments

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Parsing, performance, and low-level programming.

I’ve researched and learned enough about client-side memory leaks to know that most web developers aren’t worrying about them too much. If a web app leaks 5 MB on every interaction, but…

High-performance open BitTorrent tracker (UDP, HTTP, WebTorrent) - greatest-ape/aquatic

Along with the broader industry trend of transitioning security-sensitive code to memory-safe languages like Rust, there has been an effort to write a Rust-based replacement to GNU Coreutils

To give a bit of context, I am a Discord admin on a small server about development, and we recently got a report from one of our users that…

Posted in r/programming by u/feross • 106 points and 34 comments

QuestDB 6.2.0 brings a brand new JIT (Just-in-Time) compiler as a part of the SQL engine. This post describes our storage model, how we built a JIT compiler for SQL and our plans for improving it in future.