I'm about two weeks into Rust now, so this feels like a good time to write a
critique, before I get Stockholm Syndrome'd.

My main motivation in learning Rust is that I have to maintain some of Dark's
Rust code [https://docs.darklang.com/contributing/if-you…

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Short stories about the singularity written in collaboration with GPT-3.

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An 11th-hour reprieve for Uber and Lyft.

Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.0! This version of the language represents our next generation of TypeScript releases, as we dive deeper into expressivity, productivity, and scalability. If you’re not familiar with TypeScript…

The app store model has been a central part of the smartphone revolution, bringing safe, trusted software to billions of people for the first time. Breaking it would be insane. The trouble is, it also means Apple (and Google) aren’t the pirates anymore -…

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It's hardly a return to the glory days of the 1960s, but IBM Z Series mainframes look like they are more than getting by with a little help from their open source friends. IBM's Ross Mauri talks ab...

Stop thinking about the project. Shut up and plan the sprint.

Joe Sullivan, who led Uber’s security team through the company’s most tumultuous period, was fired by the company’s newly installed chief executive in 2017.

We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.

Over the past couple weeks I've been trying to work out how I want to store my game configuration. At first I started playing with XML, which was nice because I could stream a file rather than loading the entire thing into memory but I turned away from XML…

The editor behind a new academic journal that only publishes unsurprising research hopes the journal will help fix a major problem in scientific research — a bias towards surprising, unexpected results.