About Gzip And TarEverybody on Linux and BSD seems to use a program called gzip, frequently in conjunction with another program called tar. Tar, named from Tape ARchive, is a program which copies files and folders (

Update 2023-06-06: Go 1.21 is expected to support GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar as a way of trying out these new semantics. See #57969 and https://go.dev/wiki/LoopvarExperiment. We have been looking at what...

A lightweight text editor written in Lua. Contribute to rxi/lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function
qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare);

where compare is a function which returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the…

The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers.

Related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186412
The Problem macOS ships with Z shell settings that do not find commands far back enough using the history command to be useful.
If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep…

What is ‘git switch and git restore’

Comparing one of the most popular Postgres features against alternatives

A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer. Contribute to rvaiya/warpd development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does…

essons on migration projects from Box, Stripe, Pinterest, Doordash, LinkedIn and others.

A field guide to VPNs, proxies, and traffic relaying

Developer Tim Davis, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has claimed on Twitter […]

Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.

💩🚀 Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. - felixrieseberg/windows95

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM. - valeriansaliou/sonic