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Top 10 Most Excellent Gems to Use in Any Ruby Web Application

fullstackruby.dev

ruby
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade

substack.com

If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I...
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. After all, computers have evolved from sporting 8-bit processors to 64-bit processors and, on the way, the amount of memory that these computers can lev...

assembly hardware
2
Miscellaneous notes on Steam Deck reshells, mods, and screen replacements

lazerwalker.com

hardware
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Formally verifying tiny bits of QEMU using Frama-C, Richard W.M. Jones, 2020

youtube.com

formalmethods people & blogs video
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What’s New In Python 3.13

python.org

python
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Pigweed Eng Blog #5: C++20 coroutines without heap allocation — Pigweed

pigweed.dev

Published on 2024-10-07 by Taylor Cramer Pigweed now provides support for coroutines on embedded targets! 1Coro<Status>...
Published on 2024-10-07 by Taylor Cramer Pigweed now provides support for coroutines on embedded targets! 1Coro<Status> Blink(CoroContext&, 2 TimeProvider<SystemClock>& time, 3 Led& led, 4 int times) { 5 for (int i = 0; i < times; ++i) { 6 led.TurnOn(); 7 co_await time.WaitFor(500ms); 8 led.TurnOff(); 9 co_await tim...

api c++
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Put business logic in the application, not the database

infoworld.com

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the...
We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated WHERE clauses. And why not? SQL databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL are really good at performing complex joins, filt...

databases
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An Adaptive Packed-Memory Array

stonybrook.edu

pdf performance
1
What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
1
The programmer's obsession with version numbers - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm

conman.org

It's yet another round of hand wringing about software versioning. Woot! Over the years, I've found...
It's yet another round of hand wringing about software versioning. Woot! Over the years, I've found that semantic versioning works for me, but only for code code that is to be used in larger projects, like libraries, modules, or classes. Yes, a code base using semantic versioning doesn't always mean the code base fo...

increasing versions named versions practices rant semantic versioning
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Big Ball of Mud

laputan.org

big ball of mud computer science gang of four gang-of-four practices
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Bet Against SQL: Queries as Code by James Cowling & Sujay Jayakar

youtube.com

databases javascript science & technology video
1
6 years with Gleam

crowdhailer.me

gleam programming
1
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw

liberda.nl

If your service needs to trust the clients, hold my Big Mac lnl · 2023-07-28 I...
If your service needs to trust the clients, hold my Big Mac lnl · 2023-07-28 I looked at a discussion on blink-dev Google Group and saw the message: Perhaps it is a good thing for user choice to have a browser that is fully open to any use and allows anonymous user actions. The result of such open-ness is that an en...

android security
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Low-Level Development on Retail Android Hardware - Reconnaissance and Prototyping a Bootloader

timschumi.net

Many months ago, a slightly younger Tim thought that porting mainline Linux to his old Android...
Many months ago, a slightly younger Tim thought that porting mainline Linux to his old Android phone for the purpose of experimentation would be a great way to pass time. (In hindsight it was, but not for the reasons imagined.) However, the device in question is a Samsung Galaxy Core Plus (codenamed cs02), an obscur...

programming reversing
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Yet Another ASCII Table

larsw.xyz

compsci
1
Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W combines RP2350B MCU with Raspberry Pi RM2 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module - CNX Software

cnx-software.com

Raspberry Pi released the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 a few months ago, featuring the new RP2350...
Raspberry Pi released the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 a few months ago, featuring the new RP2350 chip. Despite several upgrades, it lacks wireless connectivity like Pico W. While there’s no official Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W yet, Pimoroni has developed an unofficial alternative, the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W, which integrates Wi-F...

hardware
2
Heiko (@hko@fosstodon.org)

fosstodon.org

release security
1
Confusing or misunderstood topics in systems programming: Part 0

pthorpe92.dev

6 minute read Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

linux osdev
1
The end of Cryptography - Slant - Cryptography - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]

archiveofourown.org

Alice had a message to send. "I have a message to send", she announced over the...
Alice had a message to send. "I have a message to send", she announced over the public channels. Eve, who always paid excessive attention to everything Alice said, thought that this sounded interesting, and resolved to read the message. "I shall send it to Bob in the most convoluted way possible," expounded Alice fu...

archive cryptography fair use fanfiction otw
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bash_quiz.md

github.com

unix
1
Repairing database on the fly for millions of users

ashishb.net

This is a story of a messaging app used by billions of users.The app followed an...
This is a story of a messaging app used by billions of users.The app followed an extremely strong model of privacy. The app never persisted the user’s data on the servers. All the communication is end-to-end encrypted.A lot of users of this app, especially, on Android would regularly uninstall and reinstall the app....

databases debugging mobile
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fwupd 2.0.0 and new tricks – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

gnome.org

Today I tagged fwupd 2.0.0, which includes lots of new hardware support, a ton of bugfixes...
Today I tagged fwupd 2.0.0, which includes lots of new hardware support, a ton of bugfixes and more importantly a redesigned device prober and firmware loader that allows it to do some cool tricks. As this is a bigger-than-usual release I’ve written some more verbose releases notes below. The first notable thing is ...

hardware linux
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regalloc III

d-sonuga.netlify.app

regalloc III Nobody likes waiting for code to finish compiling. Today, Rust's Cranelift backend can be...
regalloc III Nobody likes waiting for code to finish compiling. Today, Rust's Cranelift backend can be used to make debug builds faster, but there's still room for improvement. I spent the last few months working on a register allocator which, when used with Cranelift, speeds up the Rust compiler by up to 18%. I've ...

compilers rust
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