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What the f*** is reflection?**
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What are you doing this weekend?**
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PyPy v7.3.18 release
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OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?**
In this article, Zhu Zekun compares OpenTelemetry, Prometheus 2. x, Prometheus 3. x and vmagent for collecting and distributing metrics.

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numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units
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FOSDEM 2025 - 14 Years of systemd
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Litestack: 6 gems and databases into one
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Subpixel Snake: The Web's Smallest Game
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You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
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The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura
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Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud
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The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers
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How much instrumentation is enough / when am I done?**
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Benchmarking caching in Rails with Redis vs the alternatives
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Library sandboxing for Verona
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[OpenWrt Wiki] OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release - 6. February 2025
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AI by Hand Exercises in Excel
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A Decade of TILs
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Llama's Paradox - Exploiting Llama.cpp
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The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work | Mistral AI
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DOOM running on Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle
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A Closer Look At The Tanmatsu
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Fabrication begins for production OpenTitan silicon
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GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens
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Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024
I wrote a long article about my experience upgrading a large Rust codebase to the 2024 edition.

It was an interesting experience, and I learned some new things about the language along the way.

I know it’s still a few more weeks until 1.85 comes out, but a lot of the work can be done ahead of time. Hopefully this will make the actual upgrade a lot easier!

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Parameterized tests in Swift: Reducing boilerplate code
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Frink data file for non-changing units
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Which rich text editor framework should you choose in 2025?**
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A cheaper and faster way to deploy Binderhub
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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
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HTML Whitespace is Broken
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The Three Basic Rules of Safety Hygiene
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The inevitability of the borrow checker
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Profiling in production with function call traces
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Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang
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Just because you’re getting an index scan, doesn't mean you can’t do better
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FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time
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String vs &str**
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SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated
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It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety – Communications of the ACM
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Hotline for modern Apple systems
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How to Influence Query Planning in Postgresql
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The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation
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Daisy the 'AI granny' speaks to scammer: 'I'm a bit lost now'
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Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++
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Counter-Strike analytics with Bevy and React
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Versioning versus Coordination
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All Bear blogs can use hashtags now via Octothorpes
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the sudoku affair
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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
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Implementation of a RingBuffer in Java with optional FIFO like semantics
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comic-web-markup: Comic-web is a markup language for describing comics, as well as a rendering engine for this language
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zasper: Fastest and Most Efficient IDE to run Jupyter Notebooks
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Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
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Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module
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Prediction Games
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A Java JIT Compiler and Runtime in Common Lisp
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Zig, Elm, and linters (2022)
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Puzzmo — The place for thoughtful puzzles
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How To Scale Your Model
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Radiant Foam
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Rewriting Slipshow in OCaml: The undo-able monad
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Building voice AI apps in Elixir with Membrane and Google Gemini
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Deploying OpenVMS x86 on Amazon EC2
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Zig; what I think after months of using it
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A painless guide to CRC error detection algorithms (1993)
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Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis
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Spritely Institute - Decentralized Networking Technology
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Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios
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A compiler IR for Scrapscript
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ACL2
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Cooperative multitasking in Rust
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The developer of SerenityOS is challenging the browser duopoly
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Monkeypatching Django
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Corca: Collaborative Math Editor
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Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time
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Migrating pigweed.dev to Bazel
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Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes
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Supply chain security and the danger of abandoned S3 buckets
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Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
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Big Packages or Many Dependencies
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Decorator JITs - Python as a DSL
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No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming
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How to configure multiple Tor relays on the same interface with different IPs
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How languages influence each other and evolve
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Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust (2018)
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WebAssembly from the Ground Up
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Seeking Support After Equinix Metal Sunsets
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Best Simple System for Now
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"GOT0 Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful (1987)
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Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 4: reading tables metadata
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Gang of None? Design Patterns in Elixir
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Operational and Denotational Strategies for Understanding Code
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Running Private DeepSeek R1 with Verifiable Security
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Lisa: Production-quality expert-system shell
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AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
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Generating image descriptions and alt-text with AI
I tested 13 LLMs to auto-generate alt-text for 9,000 images missing descriptions on my website. Not surprisingly, cloud models (GPT-4, Claude 3.5) performed best but weren’t perfect. For local options, Llama variants and MiniCPM-V worked reliably but missed some details. Local models align with my values, but cloud models would serve visually impaired users better. Should I prioritize principles or pragmatic accessibility?

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Retaking The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time
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Developer philosophy
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Disassembling a binary: linear sweep and recursive traversal
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