TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side…

GitHub and digital rights group EFF have filed briefs in support of Yout.com's legal battle against the RIAA.

Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 1700 3D animations showing how all sorts of different mechanisms work…gears, linkages, drive

Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before they finally click and become simple. That or they'll seem simple out of the gate and you'll be missing a bunch of…

After years of singleminded worship of the false god Assistant, Google is rushing its AI strategy and already making a hash of it.

My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis being shaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley.

Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View

$30B Of Google Profit Evaporating Overnight, Performance Improvement With H100 TPUv4 TPUv5

Yesterday a Reddit link started going around the IF circles: "Wait," I thought, "haven't I seen that map before?" No, I had not. But I sort of had? Then I looked through my collection of Zork maps. Then I realized, oh no, I have a collection ...

If you want to say congratulations, share a curl related memory or otherwise celebrate this historic event in text, this is the thread for you. curl was first released on March 20, 1998 when it was...

ARM is unusual among processors by having the program counter available as a “normal” register. This gives rise to some unorthodox ways of returning.

Do you remember your backlog ever shrinking? Of course you don’t. Backlogs never shrink.

Large Language Models are dumber than your neighbor's cat

10 Web Rendering Patterns in a nutshell

Kat Mañalac is the head of YC's Outreach team and advises early stage founders on their launches during the YC batch. She shares the multitude of ways to launch a product and how to get attention for them. Her talk provides tangible strategies and examples…

A stricter gofmt. Contribute to mvdan/gofumpt development by creating an account on GitHub.