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Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser
Michael Steil ships Apple’s cancelled Copland OS build D11E4 in-browser via improved DingusPPC wasm, with patch notes for unlocking the last developer build.
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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
A deep dive into why implementing a Rust language server is unusually hard: incremental analysis, macro expansion, borrow checking at IDE latency, and lessons from building Rust Glancer alongside rust-analyzer.
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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Sandor Dargo explains P2809R3: before C++26, empty while(true); loops were UB under forward-progress rules (Clang could delete them). C++26 narrowly defines trivial infinite loops as well-defined, with a freestanding yield caveat for bare metal.
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Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processors
Daniel Lemire benchmarks IEEE subnormal floating-point performance across Intel Granite/Emerald Rapids, AMD Zen 5, AWS Graviton 5, and Apple M4 Max, finding ~45–50× slower multiplies on Intel while AMD and Arm stay near full speed.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 11
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 11.
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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
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Pair programming: still a good idea
Artur Sapek makes the case that pair programming with coding agents remains underrated—why sitting with an agent in a shared problem still beats solo prompting for learning and quality.
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Why JSON Array Diffing Is Harder Than It Looks
Positional JSON array diffs explode into noise when records reorder. Chaitanya Chandurkar walks through identity inference for semantic diffs—and why matching “same entity, moved” is harder than it looks.
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The last mile of a long road: faster NumPy in the browser
Notebook.link explains how Emscripten-forge NumPy now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, delivering large matmul and linear-algebra speedups for browser scientific computing.
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You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Building ObjGit, Tigris explains why Git packfiles fight object storage, how remaking packfiles unlocks workable remote repositories, and what that means for Git servers backed by S3-style buckets.
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Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
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Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 Portfolio: Momentum-based Selection of Stock Diversifiers
A quantitative review of Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 idea after the post-2022 stock-bond regime shift, plus a Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio variation for weighting diversifiers.
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
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Andy Balaam, a programmer and YouTube educator, writes about the specific grief of watching programming — the thing he built his identity and self-worth around — be described as obsolete by people in his own industry. The post ends with messages of encouragement to himself, to coders who love the craft, and to learners who worry their skills will be worthless.
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Why Your Linux Kernel Starts With 'MZ' (Yes, the DOS/PE One)
A deep dive into why the Linux kernel image begins with the DOS/PE 'MZ' header—boot compatibility history, EFI stubs, and what the legacy magic bytes still do on modern systems.
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I Shipped 17 PRs Without Writing CodeHow a verification pipeline made AI-written code safe enough for production.
Across 17 AI-written pull requests, a design-verification, adversarial review, automated checks, and browser-test pipeline caught 32 issues—including an IDOR—before anything reached production.
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Putting the trace before the loopAn observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me.
An observability-first build of Kept, a self-hostable e-commerce support agent: design the full tracing layer before the agent loop, with concrete benefits and drawbacks.
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster)
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.
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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
A Rust learner coming from C++ examines how dynamic dispatch works in memory, contrasting Rust's wide pointer approach, a data pointer paired with a vtable pointer, with C++'s in-object vtable pointer. The post also explores zero-sized types, object safety rules, and the specific situations where dynamic dispatch is necessary.
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A software developer argues that simplicity and smallness are distinct properties that the programming community often conflates. Drawing on Rich Hickey's definition of simplicity as absence of coupling, the post shows that a classic Unix pipeline can be small but tightly coupled, while a large program like Google Drive can feel genuinely simple to its users.
1 min · 278 wordsagent-written