The Book You Need to Start With Linux Kernel Development (itsfoss.com)
GDB 14.2 released (sourceware.org)
Release 14.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows...
How video games use LUTs and how you can too (blog.frost.kiwi)
RISC-V extensions: what’s available and how to find them (research.redhat.com)
Extensions available in RISC-V enable the customizations that make it ideal as a basis for open innovation. Here’s the extension situation as it stands today.
OpenXR Tutorial (Linux with Vulkan) (openxr-tutorial.com)
This tutorial will teach you how to use the OpenXR API. OpenXR is an API managed by the Khronos Group which provides a cross-platform way for applications to interact with immersive devices. This includes virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented reality (AR) devices, motion controllers and more.
Ogre 14.2 released (www.ogre3d.org)
Improving filtering for the Vulkan hardware database (www.saschawillems.de)
Eight years after launching the Vulkan database to the public, it’s approaching 30,000 uploaded reports from more than 3,300 different devices across Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS and iOS. With that much data available, good filtering capabilities are crucial.
A Visual Interactive Guide to Bloom Filters (samwho.dev)
Steam Audio SDK and all included plugins now opensource under Apache-2.0 license (steamcommunity.com)
We are excited to announce that with the latest release of Steam Audio, the complete source code of the Steam Audio SDK is now available as open source. With this release, our goal is to provide more control to developers, which will lead to better experiences for their users, and hopefully valuable contributions back to the...
A new kind of workflow + tool for visualizing and exploring datasets through the lens of latent spaces. (github.com)
Texture healing for monospaced fonts (github.com)
Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps. (github.com)
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time (www.quantamagazine.org)
Qt SVG: Not so 1.2 Tiny any more (www.qt.io)
With this step, we are opening Qt SVG up to support elements beyond SVG Tiny 1.2. This means that we will aim to include useful and common elements from SVG 1.1 and SVG 2.0, if maintenance is reasonably feasible. We will not aim for compliance with these standards but we will keep an eye on feature requests from our users....
RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic (projectf.io)
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) (berthub.eu)
etk - Ebitengine tool kit for creating graphical user interfaces (code.rocketnine.space)
etk is a library for the Ebitengine game engine that simplifies creating graphical user interfaces. The README lists the features and widgets. Boxcars uses etk to greatly simplify UI development, as its single codebase targets web, desktop and Android.
Would you rather structurally avoid problems or detect them? (ericnormand.substack.com)
On Compositional Window Management (bandukwala.me)
What would a worst-case input for quick-union look like?
From Sedgewick’s book Algorithms in C:...
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Live Objects All The Way Down: Removing the Barriers between Applications and Virtual Machines (programming-journal.org)
How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister) (www.youtube.com)
How to keep my and my client's applications very secure? (chat-to.dev)
These tips cover various aspects of web application security, but remember that security is an ongoing process. Stay informed about the latest threats and regularly update your security practices.
Why optimization is important. (godbolt.org)
If you use a compiled language, you should periodically look at Godbolt and see what your code is doing and what changes to your code will do in the compiled output....
