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C++ to Rust Phrasebook - C++ to Rust Phrasebook

brown.edu

This book is designed to help C++ programmers learn Rust. It provides translations of common C++...
This book is designed to help C++ programmers learn Rust. It provides translations of common C++ patterns into idiomatic Rust. Each pattern is described through concrete code examples along with high-level discussion of engineering trade-offs. The book can be read front-to-back, but it is designed to be used random-...

c++rust
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Improving EC2 boot time from 4s to 2.8s to accelerate builds

depot.dev

We at Depot like making shit fast, whether that's Docker image builds, Github Actions runners, Bazel...
We at Depot like making shit fast, whether that's Docker image builds, Github Actions runners, Bazel caching, Turborepo, or even our own infrastructure. Recently, we've been working to make EC2 instances boot faster. Why? Because the faster we can boot an EC2 instance, the faster we can get your build running. We've...

linux performance systemd
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What is Racket DOING??? — defn.io

defn.io

debugging lisp
1
The Book of Shen 4th Edition

shenlanguage.org

functional programming lisp logic programming typed languages
1
Programming Beyond Practices

skillstopractice.com

book pdf practices
1
What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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Decomplexification

haxx.se

(Clearly a much better word than simplification.) I believe we generally accept the truth that we...
(Clearly a much better word than simplification.) I believe we generally accept the truth that we should write simple and easy to read code in order to make it harder to create bugs and cause security problems. The more complicated code we write, the easier it gets to slip up, misunderstand or forget something along...

devops
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MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans - BigGo News

biggo.com

api web
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access — fireborn

mataroa.blog

Published on May 30, 2025 Welcome back to "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love...
Published on May 30, 2025 Welcome back to "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back." In this post, we’re stepping into the part of Linux that everyone says “just works” — the console. The raw, text-only interface you drop into when X dies, the GUI fails, or you're installing a system from scratch. Sighted user...

a11y linux
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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple

matttproud.com

design historical miscellany software history unix
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Types and other techniques as an accessibility tool for the ADHD brain - M.Newton | Lambda Days 2024

youtube.com

a11y plt practices science & technology video
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The radix 2^51 trick

chosenplaintext.ca

assembly performance
2
When was the last time you broke production and how? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Inspired by this post on senior engineers telling junior engineers about their mistakes, I am asking...
Inspired by this post on senior engineers telling junior engineers about their mistakes, I am asking you all to share your stories or even existing posts about a situation where you royally fucked something up. (Bonus points for every story that is turned into a blog post just for this thread)

ask practices
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A poor man’s types

snork.dev

plt
1
Edward Ahn

edwardahn.me

A couple months ago, I replied to a tweet asking what the difference between a NeRF...
A couple months ago, I replied to a tweet asking what the difference between a NeRF (neural radiance field) and 3DGS (3D Gaussian Splatting) is. It gained a lot of traction because I kept the explanation high-level for non-experts to understand. As promised, here is my blog post explaining that tweet further.Inspire...

graphics
1
Announcing dotnet run app.cs - A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10 - .NET Blog

microsoft.com

dotnet
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The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans

zdnet.com

panida wijitpanya/Getty ImagesLinus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May...
panida wijitpanya/Getty ImagesLinus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for a few hours, Torvalds said, "because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour," but Linux 6.15 is here and rea...

linux rust
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Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++... in Rust

blomqu.ist

Back in 2011, Google published a report for Scala Days 2011 comparing the idiomatic implementation of...
Back in 2011, Google published a report for Scala Days 2011 comparing the idiomatic implementation of an algorithm in C++, Java, Go, and Scala.Over ten years later, the landscape has changed significantly.The 2011 Stack Overflow Survey (the second ever!) only asked users what languages they were proficient in. Let's...

c++rust
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Error

thiswebsitedoesnotexist.net

ai vibecoding
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HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst — fireborn

mataroa.blog

Published on May 29, 2025 And it's wrapped in a maze of broken promises, bad design,...
Published on May 29, 2025 And it's wrapped in a maze of broken promises, bad design, and outright user hostility You've probably heard of hCaptcha — the CAPTCHA alternative that brags about privacy, security, and accessibility. You may have even used it. You may have trusted it. If you did, I don’t blame you. Its ma...

a11y web
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Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development?

mtlynch.io

One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been...
One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been a while since I learned a new language, and I feel like a lot of the languages I know well (Go, Python, C++) are similar to each other, so I want to try getting out of my comfort zone a bit with a language that feels weird to...

elixir web
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Net-Negative Cursor | Lukas Atkinson

lukasatkinson.de

rust vibecoding
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Making openat(2) and friends more useful in practice

undeadly.org

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-05-28 from the best laid plans of pufferfish and...
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-05-28 from the best laid plans of pufferfish and ... dept. Reining in file system access is hard to get right, even for OpenBSD developers. In a message to tech@ titled openat(2) is mostly useless, sadly Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) describes how the openat(2) family of system...

openbsd
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Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services – Communications of the ACM

acm.org

Amazon Web Services (AWS) strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely. This requires...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely. This requires maintaining the highest standards of security, durability, integrity, and availability—with systems correctness serving as the cornerstone for achieving these priorities. An April 2015 article published ...

formalmethods testing
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