Implementing faster data structures in Rust and exposing them to BEAM for Elixir: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3
miniblog.
Excellent discussion of verbosity (many keywords), orthogonality (scalar vs record expressions, calling conversations) and semantics (bizarre equality for NULL) in database query languages, focusing on SQL: https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql/
(Uses 'design by implementation' as derogatory!)
Preserving scroll position on a page even if an ad loads asynchronously or if you rotate your phone!
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/scroll-anchoring-in-firefox-66/
Signing up to the Raspberry Pi website, and it encourages users to use a password manager! Great to see them teaching good computing practices.
I've learnt a little hg recently, and I really like how it distinguishes local branches that haven't been released yet. With git, a local branch is not shown as diverging from the upstream trunk!
Mercurial has strictly more information here with its notion of phases.
Code completion for Pharo is in GSoC again, looking at type inference and statistical ordering based on recent classes! https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/improving-code-completion-gsoc-2019-introduction-de36e106a12f
Zero cost abstractions, and what persuades other developers to use our abstractions: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/
Wonderful article on Racket, phase separation when expanding macros, and Racket's logging tooling: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/04/21/defeating-racket-s-separate-compilation-guarantee/
Trialling a simpler UI for Twitter, without like/retweet counts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/behind-twitters-plan-to-get-people-to-stop-yelling-at-each
IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that people are committing fraud to obtain them! https://www.circleid.com/posts/20190514_735k_fraudulently_obtained_ip_addresses_have_been_revoked/
Powershell 7, and how the Linux userbase has overtaken Windows! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/the-next-release-of-powershell-powershell-7/
Reflections on Maxis, SimCity, and world views in computer games: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/video-games-are-better-without-characters/387556/
Computer Utopias: notes from a course with some fabulous discussion of tech today, how we think about it, and what it could be: https://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/
Rust 1.34.0 had a security vulnerability that allowed reading/writing memory out of bounds!
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/05/14/Rust-1.34.2.html
Markets are bigger, and companies are more valuable, because the internet has allowed them reach many more people: https://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/markets-are-10x-bigger-than-ever.html
@cwebber@octodon.social How so? What conclusion did you draw?
Exploring creation-oriented UI design for tablets with a touch screen: https://medium.com/@hirodusk/the-ipad-as-a-fast-precise-tool-for-creativity-21384ea18659
Many services are built on open source services, but today's model is monetising *state*: https://denisnazarov.com/what-comes-after-open-source/
Online videos are often a great historical reference for obsolete computer games, because they show the game in context of an active community: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/06/how-youtube-lets-plays-are-preserving-video-game-history/
(I suppose this also applies to MUDs and online communities that aren't gaming related.)
Yet another side channel attack in CPUs: https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-side-channel-attack/
(Big incentive to upgrade when fixed chips are available!)
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