A brief discussion in which developers invent development; ‘agile methodology’ becomes something to sell and buy, and how this trickles…

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There are lots of simple things you can do to improve at JavaScript. Here are some methods we use to write better JS.

The V8 Lite project dramatically reduced the memory overhead of V8 on typical websites, this is how we did it.

Compressed pointers in V8 Attention: Shared Google-externally Authors: ishell@chromium.org Status: FINAL Last updated: 2019-09-11 This document outlines the plan to evaluate and implement pointer compression in V8. Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.or…

With 35 million lines of Python code, the Athena trading platform is at the core of JPMorgan's business operations. A late start to migrating to Python 3 could create a security risk.

The numbers range from $40,000 to $320,000 and reveal key details about how pay works at big tech companies

Emulator for the Commander X16 8-bit computer. Contribute to commanderx16/x16-emulator development by creating an account on GitHub.

A vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics - john-h-k/MathSharp

Learn how computers work in this series where I build and program a basic computer with the classic 6502 microprocessor. More info: https://www.eater.net/6502

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8vPW5hydQ
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8_2JJV0B4…

A programming font for dyslexia (under development) - Santosh-Gupta/LexieProgrammable

Performance clearly matters to users. For example, the most common software update on the AppStore is "Bug fixes and performance enhancements." Now that Moore's Law has ended, programmers have to work hard to get high performance for their applications. But…

IBM introduces its latest Z mainframe, the z15. Here's a detailed look at the changes and enhancements that were made including the new system architecture and CPU microarchitecture.

An implementation of rule 110 in Scalable Vector Graphics - tom-p-reichel/noscript-is-turing-complete

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google.…

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Expressive code in C++