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How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux
RHEL 10 becomes the first major enterprise Linux distro to discard traditional packaging and embrace immutable. See how we got here.
Naming is easy! A guide for developers
Naming things properly, completely, and clearly is a huge part of writing good code. And if you avoid these traps, it’s easy.
Decentralized mesh cloud: A promising concept
Less latency and high scalability are great, but does your enterprise have the skills to handle the increased complexity?
Can accessibility be whimsical?
It started out with me just trying to find a cute word to put with a11y, the numeronym for accessibility. Because you have to buy a cute domain name for every side project idea, of course. And as much as I try to say “a-eleven-y” of course my brain always
Rethinking the Environmental Costs of Training AI — Why We Should Look Beyond Hardware | Towards Data Science
A statistical analysis of what drives energy, water, and carbon consumption in AI training — and whether hardware improvements are enough.
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DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format | LIEF
This blog post introduces a new API in LIEF to create DWARF files | LIEF
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Gnarliest Rust proxy bug yet.
Brilliant Labs
Pocket-sized AR for imaginative hackers. At Brilliant Labs, we're building an open-source ecosystem to support developers and creatives reimagining the future.
Chapter 2: The Bike That Never Went Out of Control
A story about a college friend's bike leads to a deeper lesson on software design principles and why great code, like a great machine, should never go out of control.
[IWE] Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective
Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP
Photo RDF-Gen: Generator of RDF files to describe photographies and other images.
Philosophy Eats AI | MIT Sloan Management Review
AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.
Kintsugi: Using Traditional Japanese Art to Heal Emotional Wounds
In the Japanese art of kintsugi, broken objects are mended with gold — something artist Yuki Otani sees as a path to personal healing.
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Remotely Interesting: Stream Gages
Near my childhood home was a small river. It wasn’t much more than a creek at the best of times, and in dry summers it would sometimes almost dry up completely. But snowmelt revived it each S…
Residuality Theory: A Rebellious Take on Building Systems That Actually Survive
Today, I'm bringing you Barry O'Reilly's Residuality Theory, one of the most brainwashing approaches to software architecture I've seen in recent years. Check out my notes and findings on how and why you should consider it in your regular design practice.
Explanations, not Algorithms
Algorithms are all the rage in tech. And yet, they are useless unless you use them as black boxes. Better disseminate explanations—they are much more understandable and reproducible.
Delete without DELETE. Smarter strategies for removing high-volume, short-lived data - Infobip Developers Hub
More often than not, we have some kind of […]
On Distributed Tracing · @radekmie’s take on IT and stuff
Much easier time while debugging API requests involving multiple services while reducing the number of logs by 85%? All that thanks to distributed tracing!
What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.
Odin: A programming language made for me
In my book Understanding the Odin Programming Language I wrote that “Odin incorporates some of my favorite C best practices, straight into the language”. But I didn’t really elaborate on the details. Let’s do that here!
This brings me to talking a bit about a previous job I had. Back in 2021 I worked at a place called Our Machinery. We were creating a whole game engine in plain C. We used a very comfortable and powerful way to program C.
The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum - JSTOR Daily
Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned some of the possibilities of today’s Web more than a century before its existence.
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Paul Otlet - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet ( tle 23 August 1868 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called documentation. Otlet created the Universal Dec
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