[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL
The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing...
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Uforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices
Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing,...
Read moreBuild a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 6
Add structured logging, distributed traces, and game analytics to your Deno game and learn how to use Deno Deploy’s built-in logs, traces, and metrics dashboards.
Read moreLinux Kernel 7.0 RC1 Released: A “Solid Progress” Milestone
Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming Linux Kernel version 7.0. Here’s what’s new in Linux 7.0-rc1. The post Linux Kernel 7.0...
Read moreModern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0
It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now...
Read moreLoading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design
I got this interesting question in an SVG workshop: “What is the performance difference between an SVG loader and simply rotating an image for a loader?”...
Read morePython for Loops: The Pythonic Way
Python’s for loop allows you to iterate over the items in a collection, such as lists, tuples, strings, and dictionaries. The for loop syntax declares a...
Read moreIntel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes
For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel “ANV” open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes…
Read moreReview: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic
HBO has another critically acclaimed hit with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, and it...
Read moreThe Download: Chicago’s surveillance network, and building better bras
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon...
Read moreAI’s Math Tricks Don’t Work for Scientific Computing
AI has driven an explosion of new number formats—the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking at every possible way to save computation...
Read moreTSSLint 3.0: Final Major Release with Reduced Dependencies
TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual...
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