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How I think about Zig and Rust

lewiscampbell.tech

Zig and Rust are the two great systems languages of our time, and discussions of their...
Zig and Rust are the two great systems languages of our time, and discussions of their respective merits generate a lot interest. But the usual arguments leave me wanting: "Rust is safer, but Zig is simpler" "Zig is a C replacement, Rust is a C++ replacement" "Zig is for super pragmatic people who want to get things...

rust zig
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Earthstar

earthstar-project.org

distributed
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A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter

jamesbvaughan.com

I received a surprising scammy email today, and I ended up learning some things about email...
I received a surprising scammy email today, and I ended up learning some things about email security as a result.Here’s the email:I was about to mark it as spam in Gmail and move on, but I noticed a couple things that intrigued me.At first glance, this appeared to be a legitimate PayPal invoice email. It looked like...

security
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Superglue 1.0: React ❤️ Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness

thoughtbot.com

javascript release ruby
3
core.async/doc/flow.md at master · clojure/core.async

github.com

clojure
2
Improve Rust Compile Time by 108X

burn.dev

Before you get too excited, the techniques used to reduce compilation time are not applicable to...
Before you get too excited, the techniques used to reduce compilation time are not applicable to all Rust projects. However, I expect the learnings to be useful for any Rust developer who wants to improve their project's compilation time. Now that this is clarified, let's dive into the results. Results We started wi...

rust
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Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1) — 2025 — Blog — GNU Guix

gnu.org

community linux lisp nix user survey
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Packaging the Multipass Flutter GUI for NixOS

jnsgr.uk

The very first application I ever packaged in nixpkgs was Multipass. Multipass is, according to the...
The very first application I ever packaged in nixpkgs was Multipass. Multipass is, according to the website:a CLI to launch and manage VMs on Windows, Mac and Linux that simulates a cloud environment with support for cloud-init.I wrote in some detail about how I use Multipass and LXD on my workstation to create and ...

nix
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How do I internationalize my CMS?

dz4k.com

Denizen is a CMS for personal websites. I want to work on multi-language support – people...
Denizen is a CMS for personal websites. I want to work on multi-language support – people should be able to make websites and posts in any language they want. (My own blog is in English, Turkish, and Toki Pona – so this is a blocker for eating my dog food). Every aspect of this feels like something other people must...

ask web
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Laptop archeology – or – how to install NixOS 24.11 on a 25 year old laptop

mynacol.xyz

Earlier this year I brought an old laptop to my home my grandfather once gave. It...
Earlier this year I brought an old laptop to my home my grandfather once gave. It is a relict from roughly 1999, with which I’ve already played around some nine years ago.Prior to 38C3 I had the idea to bring it to the congress so people could mess around with it. In the end, I was the one messing around with it, fi...

nix nixos retrocomputing
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jwz: Exterminate all rational AI scrapers

jwz.org

ai
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Creating MIDI Music with Perl

perl.com

perl
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Using PCBs to create front panels for your projects | arx

arx.wtf

written on: , last update: Regular FR4 or aluminum PCBs can be used to create cheap...
written on: , last update: Regular FR4 or aluminum PCBs can be used to create cheap (but beautiful) front panels for electronic projects. In this article, we'll explore various tips & techniques used to obtain the best results.Example of an aluminum front panel. Black solder mask, white silkscreen (text), creamy die...

hardware
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Supply chain security with mise and asdf plugins · jdx/mise · Discussion #4054

github.com

security
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Branchless UTF-8 Encoding

cceckman.com

programming rust
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The DIY FOSS cyborg -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

dustycloud.org

Do you feel the allure of becoming a cyborg? Are you one of those people who...
Do you feel the allure of becoming a cyborg? Are you one of those people who loves computing, but hates what computing has become? Do you wish to become one with your computing environment, without having to give into an immersively curated dystopian corporate version of computing we experience today? Throw off the ...

hardware linux
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The mess that is handling structure arguments and returns in LLVM

yorickpeterse.com

compilers plt
1
The best laptop ever - Mijndert Stuij

mijndertstuij.nl

hardware mac
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Unraveling a Postgres segfault that uncovered an Arm64 JIT compiler bug

datadoghq.com

Here’s an error that no developer wants to see in their Postgres server logs: server process...
Here’s an error that no developer wants to see in their Postgres server logs: server process was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault. When our team was paged about one of our Postgres clusters crashing with this error, we were quite surprised, and quickly activated our incident response. The failing cluster ...

databases debugging
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Essential BBOT Commands for Recon

gcollazo.com

security
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Creative Computing Magazine (June 1981) Volume 07 Number 06 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

fortran historical
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Fenwick Trees are Awesome!

unnamed.website

This post will only use one-based indexing since that’s what Fenwick trees traditionally use, although they...
This post will only use one-based indexing since that’s what Fenwick trees traditionally use, although they can be modified to use zero-based indexing.So imagine you have an array $A$ of size $N$, and you’d like to support two operations. The first one, called $Update(i, v)$, is trivial: Given an index $i$, add $v$ ...

algorithms data structures math origami probability
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Rapidly rendering fractals on stupidly unsuitable machines

cowlark.com

So a week or so ago I wrote a toy Mandelbrot generator for the BBC Micro,...
So a week or so ago I wrote a toy Mandelbrot generator for the BBC Micro, capable of using 2.6-bit fixed point arithmetic to draw a pretty terrible vaguely-Mandelbroid image in twelve seconds. That program is now obsolete: the very poorly named Bogomandel is capable of drawing pretty good actual Mandelbrot and Julia...

retrocomputing
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Rosetta Code

rosettacode.org

programming
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