The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked—for the hundredth time? the thousandth?—whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutioni…

Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks.

Circuit diagrams and firmware source code for Gboard DIY keyboards - google/mozc-devices

I often come across developers who know the mechanics of Python error handling well, yet when I review their code I find it to be far from good. Exceptions in Python is one of those areas that have a…

I've decided that I want to prioritize my mental (and physical) health and will no longer contribute to the WordPress open source project.

Highlights of the Julia 1.11 release.

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Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!)…

We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. My biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.

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Go 1.23 added Iterators, so lets build a js like streaming api

Android’s longtime refuge for simple, snappy email is almost Thunderbird.

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