In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

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Ultra-low-latency RPC framework for Java with zero-copy serialization and io_uring transport

Ultra-low-latency RPC framework for Java with zero-copy serialization and io_uring transport

One of the things I do when I'm feeling blue is to make a mental list of the nice things people have done for me over the years, including perfect strangers.

Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.

Nature - Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

1. Introduction
In the past few months, we’ve heard consistent feedback from users and partners: while our goal of providing a scalable, high-performance alternative to pgvector is well-received, index build time and memory usage remain major concern...

A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.

Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal. And he is criticizing what he says is the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.

The potential of formal verification for reasoning about systems.

Ember's report outlines how falling battery capital expenditures and improved performance metrics have lowered the levelized cost of storage, making dispatchable solar a competitive, anytime electricity option globally.

"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.

One day, I ran into SwissTable—the kind of design that makes you squint, grin, and immediately regret every naive linear-probing table you’ve ever shipped.
This post is the story of how I tried to bring that same “why is this so fast?” feeling into Java.…

The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment

I intend to find out

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.…

Systematic price monitoring sheds light on economics of online manipulation