Refs: nodejs/undici#1183
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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…

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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…

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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.

We made a X86 virtual machine that runs in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization solution.

Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.

The following are some modern C++ features that I found interesting or unfamiliar at the time of reading “A Tour of C++” by Professor Bjarne Stroustrup, whose C++ course at Columbia University I am currently enrolled in.

When I first started out as an engineer I really leant in to being a hero-engineer; here's the advice I wish I'd listened to earlier. you want to avoid.

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EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs study calls for major reforms of US spying laws to enable an EU-US data-sharing agreement to replace Privacy Shield.

How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP.But actually, it is possible to build an operating…