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The work done on real-time Linux has benefitted the open-source OS for years, but it was only this week that Linus Torvalds admitted its last piece into the mainline kernel. Exactly what took so long?

We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.

Keith Packardhttps://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/186/Stretching back over 35 years, the X Window System is one of theoldest surviving free sof...

An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem

TL;DR — Don’t let your read replica fall behind. If you do, then your master node will start blowing in space as it will keep eating up…

Linear now supports hosting workspace data in Europe. In this post, we outline why we decided to support multiple regions and how we tackled the project.

I received a few complaints that #embed was difficult to implement and hard to optimize. And, the people making these claims are not exactly wrong. While std...

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I recently started using the Nix Package Manager on macOS and the process has been painful. In this post, I’m going to write down how I’m currently using Nix...

In the fast-moving open-source world, programs can come and go quickly; a tool that has many users today can easily be eclipsed by something better next week. Even in this environment, though, some programs endure for a long time. As an example, consider the PostgreSQL database system, which traces its history back to 1986. Making fundamental changes to a large code base with that much history is never an easy task. As fundamental changes go, moving PostgreSQL away from its process-oriented model is not a small one, but it is one that the project is considering seriously.

Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.

Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-rs as the ngrok agent packaged as a Rust crate.

Combine 2D Shapes together and create more 2D shapes!

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993. It is a processor-independent, multiprocessing and multi-user operating system.

One of the problems we wrestle with at Jane Street is how tounderstand and manage the costs associated with the positions we hold:things like margin, financi...

What do CRDTs and frontends have to do with each other? James talks about how CRDTs finally deliver on the promise of local-first apps, which provide superior user experience, and explains how simple CRDTs can be and how to leverage them to create robust local-first apps.

In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2019. #gotocon #gotochgohttp://gotochgo.comSaša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action”ABSTRACTWhether you're dev...

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