How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26.

Is this clickbait? Not really. Is this the fault of the language or the compiler? Definitely not. Rather, it was part of a rushed migration. Sharing the lessons learned in the process.

A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.

How I built Sonner, an opinionated toast library for React used by milions.

A single unhandled exception destroyed a $500 million rocket in seconds.

The F-35 wasn't going to make the same mistake.

By carefully slicing C++, engineers created one of the strictest coding standards ever written.

This...is Programming Like a Fighter…

We've already discussed some object-level locks (specifically, relation-level locks), as well as row-level locks with their connection to object-level locks and also explored wait queues, which are...

OpenAI has disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications after users complained the recommendations resembled advertisements.

AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?

In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…

Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.

Denoscription of the issue status Steps to reproduce invite nel0x here and get help to carry on setup build and release: use old maintainers signing allowed? can we play sign? reinstate gh action wor...

Vanity Activities A few weeks ago, I came across a ~4,000-word guide to something called “credit card churning”. The essay had gone viral. Plenty of...

Ever wondered what protons sound like? Learn how to create a circuit that lets you hear them in action.

We introduce Nested Learning, a new approach to machine learning that views models as a set of smaller, nested optimization problems, each with its own internal workflow, in order to mitigate or even completely avoid the issue of “catastrophic forgetting”…

This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 Peruvian rural primary schools. We use administrative data on academic performance and grade progression over 10 years to estimate the long-run effects…

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Reactive rendering. #2662
Time travel debugging. #2910
Animation API for application code. #2757
Headless mode testing. #2698
First-class end-to-end testing. #3059
Input method support. #277...

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