K-hunt-gather and the O-hunt-gather patterns (blog.syncpup.com)
[DISCUSS] bmakelib - generate high resolution timestamp (github.com)
bmakelib is a minimalist standard library for writing Makefiles....
I made a new lemmy community for bug bounties (lemmy.ml)
If you are a dev looking to crush some bugs and make some money or an OSS project that needs some dev help, hop on in! !bugbounties
What is a fork, really, and how GitHub changed its meaning (drewdevault.com)
The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service (bgammon.org)
Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code (visualstudiomagazine.com)
A video game in a font (www.coderelay.io)
How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with "Intl.Segmenter" (www.stefanjudis.com)
Third edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup released (www.stroustrup.com)
“Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition)”, aka PPP3, is an introduction to programming for people who have never programmed before. It will also be useful for people who have programmed a bit and want to improve their style and technique - or simply learn modern C++. It is designed for classroom use, but...
Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt (www.kdab.com)
While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...
AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
AMD’s HIP Ray-Tracing library “HIP RT” has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced… That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension. The VK_NV_raw_access_chains extemsion should allow for more efficient shaders compiled from HLSL sources.
The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (blog.telegeography.com)
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
How to Build an Origami Computer (www.quantamagazine.org)
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse (www.vice.com)
It’s All Bullshit (thebaffler.com)
Cold-blooded software (dubroy.com)
A Linear Algebra Trick for Computing Fibonacci Numbers Fast (codeconfessions.substack.com)
Garn, a TypeScript-based Nix front end (garnix.io)
A software project management tool based on nix
Philosophy of coroutines (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)
I’ve been using coroutines since I first encountered them in the same book that this author found them in. Unlike him I’ve used them all over the place professionally and in my personal stuff. I prefer them to threads, to FSMs, and to the callback Hell of reactors for most of my work. This article has a good explanation of...
The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev)
Free Software principles explained in the style of Steve Jobs (mas.to)
83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds (www.usehaystack.io)
0.30000000000000004 (0.30000000000000004.com)
Your language isn’t broken, it’s doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some degree of inaccuracy. That’s why, more often than not, .1 + .2 != .3.