One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, “Know your audience.” But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you&…

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You might have read my article about plugging Wasm into Kafka Connect, but I wanted to revisit this from a different angle: what if instead of consuming data from a topic and manipulating such data on the client-side, we intercepted data as it lands on the…

Prediction-Encoded Pixels - a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method - ENDESGA/PEP

There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify…

Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.

A summary of everything we know about kOS. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Windows 3 is often said to be just an UI on top of DOS. This article presents some of the inner side of Windows 3.x and will show that it is more ambitious and advanced than that.

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Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook1 wantonly surveils iPhones owners.2

Michael Bryzek highlights specific key decisions that very directly impact the quality and maintainability of a microservice architecture, covering infrastructure, continuous deployment, communication, event streaming, language choice and more, all to ensure…

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For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled…

Manos Pitsidianakis - epilys

Odin is a manually memory managed language. Beginners of such languages are often afraid of memory leaks, meaning that you forget to deallocate memory.
The first remedy for this is to use the tracking allocator. It will warn you about memory you forgot to…

For exploring algebraic effects, safe shared mutability, and other novel features

It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck. Code quality is poor on the whole, made worse…

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