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Lockless Programming Considerations for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows - Win32 apps

microsoft.com

Lockless programming is a way to safely share changing data between multiple threads without the cost...
Lockless programming is a way to safely share changing data between multiple threads without the cost of acquiring and releasing locks. This sounds like a panacea, but lockless programming is complex and subtle, and sometimes doesn't give the benefits that it promises. Lockless programming is particularly complex on...

c++windows
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Software Development Has Too Much Software In It

smustafa.blog

Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking back on my career recently, which I’ve had plenty of time...
Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking back on my career recently, which I’ve had plenty of time to do, considering that I am exploring creative outlets like blogging, and that I’m currently in between jobs. One thing that I’ve felt slowly creeping up on me is this strange-sounding idea that software development has too...

rant
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Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before

datagubbe.se

Spring 2025 When they saw that I had aficion, and there was no password, no set...
Spring 2025 When they saw that I had aficion, and there was no password, no set questions that could bring it out, rather it was a sort of oral spiritual examination with the questions always a little on the defensive and never apparent, there was this same embarrassed putting the hand on the shoulder, or a "Buen ho...

culture historical retrocomputing
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Deciphering Glyph :: Stop Writing `__init__` Methods

glyph.im

python
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Reflections on Unikernels

recoil.org

Unikernels are single-purpose appliances where an application is linked with everything that it needs, including kernel...
Unikernels are single-purpose appliances where an application is linked with everything that it needs, including kernel drivers, into a single binary which can be run in the cloud. Our 2013 paper ("Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud") won one of the Influential Paper Awards at the 2025 ASPLOS confer...

devops osdev
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Zig and GPUs

alichraghi.github.io

GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You...
GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You can now write GPU code in modern languages like Rust and Zig with fewer layers. This post walks through the current state of Zig’s GPU backends and how they stack up across Vulkan, OpenCL, and nat...

graphics zig
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Just Throw It Into Postgres - simonsafar.com

simonsafar.com

databases
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GitHub - mitmath/matrixcalc: MIT IAP short course: Matrix Calculus for Machine Learning and Beyond

github.com

ai education math
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How to create and use program libraries on Linux (2003)

tldp.org

linux pdf practices
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HDR‑Infused Emoji

sharpletters.net

graphics
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Is No PaaS really a good idea for Rails?

honeybadger.io

devops ruby
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iOS 18.4 - dlsym considered harmful

synacktiv.com

We first observed the bug in a custom iOS application compiled for the arm64e architecture (thus...
We first observed the bug in a custom iOS application compiled for the arm64e architecture (thus supporting PAC instructions). This application makes use of dynamic symbol resolution for various system functions, by using both dlopen() and dlsym(). dlopen() takes a shared library path as argument and returns a handl...

ios
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traceboot

codeberg.org

Bootchart but lighter and more precise. Relies on ftrace events to monitor everything needed while incurring...
Bootchart but lighter and more precise. Relies on ftrace events to monitor everything needed while incurring a very low overhead. It has a microsecond-precision and doesn't affect the workload being measured by more than a few percents. Table of contents Installation This is written in OCaml so you need a matching e...

foss free git non-profit oss
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Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct

bitbashing.io

haskell
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

timsh.org

mobile privacy
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Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

archlinux.org

linux
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Integrating Effectful and Persistent

bellroy.com

effectful haskell persistent
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Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties | USENIX

usenix.org

High performance, strongly consistent applications are beginning to require scalable sub-microsecond clock synchronization. State-of-the-art clock synchronization...
High performance, strongly consistent applications are beginning to require scalable sub-microsecond clock synchronization. State-of-the-art clock synchronization focuses on improving accuracy or frequency of synchronization, ignoring the properties of the local clock: lost of connectivity to the remote clock means synchronization failure. Our system, Graham, leverages the fact that the local clock still keeps time even when connectivity is lost and builds a failure model...

hardware video
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Development On Apple Silicon with UTM

rkiselenko.dev

apple silicon arm mac macbook posts
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Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers

jetgirl.art

browsers web
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Regular Expression Derivatives in Python

fosdem.org

pdf python slides
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Unsure Calculator

filiph.github.io

show visualization
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GitHub - sqlc-dev/sqlc: Generate type-safe code from SQL

github.com

databases go
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(All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too

tselai.com

SQLite and DuckDB have earned their popularity in the data world, and for good reason. I’m...
SQLite and DuckDB have earned their popularity in the data world, and for good reason. I’m a big fan of both. Their appeal is simple: they’re just files. You can see, copy, and move them around like any other file. Of course, all databases are “just files” at the end of the day. But you can’t exactly copy-paste a Po...

databases
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