The “forever chemicals” found in the Cape Fear River were detected through a non-targeted testing method developed at UNC-Chapel Hill that broadens researchers’ abilities to identify the hazardous compounds.

Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code…

Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design.
Zig makes calling into C code…

*This post was originally published by Mike McCue.

This year, the YJIT team has been working hard to improve and optimize YJIT. We’re proud to say that the version of YJIT to be included with Ruby 3.3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Ruby 3.2’s. It provides better performance across the board, while also warming…

Customers and critics alike have raked VW over the coals for its "frustrating" interiors.

Callum John Grubb is only 19 but he is obsessed with everything from the 1940s, including his car.

A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.

Static vs dynamic typing debates often flounder because the debators see from two different perspectives without knowing it. Learning to identify the two perspectives can calm the discussion. The tension between the two perspectives has led to Gradual Typing…

Producing water could be more efficient than storing energy for later

Mistral AI is the most exciting AI research lab at the moment. They’ve now released two extremely powerful smaller Large Language Models under an Apache 2 license, and have a …

In this fourth article of the “Less Slow” series, I’m accelerating Unum’s open-source Vector Search primitives used by some great database and cloud providers to replace Meta’s FAISS and scale-up search in their products. This time, our focus is on the most…

I recently wrote a small 16-bit Forth for 8086 PCs running DOS. I built the basic one-liner loop words that can trivially be built with j...

I've done a lot in my career. From working on business support software to big backend systems and even robotics. If there's been a consistent through-line to my career, it's the Ruby programming language.

Greyhound bus terminals are rapidly closing around the country, causing access problems for low-income riders.

author, Laurence Isla,. This how-to shows a way to return HTML content and use the htmx library to handle the AJAX requests. Htmx expects an HTML response and uses it to replace an element inside the DOM (see the htmx introduction in the docs). Preparatory…

Woo-hoo you did it! Hundreds of add-on developers heeded the call to make their desktop extensions compatible for today’s debut of a new open ecosystem ...