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10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering"
Google announces a completely rewritten second edition of its Site Reliability Engineering book, ten years after the first: how SLOs, observability, automation, reliability testing, capacity management and SRE org models have matured, how SRE supports and uses AI, and why culture still matters.
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Flirt, a local-first code review tool built for the patch-series workflow where authors keep amending, rebasing, and force-pushing, is now open source on Codeberg. It remembers what you reviewed and shows the diff to the current state, works with GitHub and mailing lists, and is not yet ready for general use.
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Introducing wpd: Faster, safer WebP decoding
Halide Compression open-sources wpd, a Rust WebP decoder aiming to be faster and safer than libwebp — with strong multi-thread gains and a feature table targeting libwebp replacement.
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can continue them, while the team focuses on Orion for macOS and iOS.
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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Microsoft Excel Insiders Beta adds lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, plus HAS/HASANY/HASALL/FLATTEN, so related values can live in one cell without losing filtering and calculation.
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