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  • Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?

    The last blog post I wrote explained why I chose to make FairScan open source. In particular, I said I knew there was a risk when I published FairScan's code and I was ready to accept it. I didn't expect to face that reality so soon.

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  • The reverts will continue until morale improves

    Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected.

    Lobsters5 min read
  • What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?

    The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...

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  • Chasing a -O2 pessimization in antcc

    Recently I was benchmarking the generated code efficiency for my C compiler antcc, and I noticed something concerning in a simple Lua benchmark:

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  • A slightly faster slimmer curl

    Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes.

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  • Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

    The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds famil

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  • Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods

    One good trick when trying to look for ways to optimize software is to stay away from areas that are very likely already quite well optimized, and instead focus on areas that might have been overlooked, either because they are too obscure or don't show up during regular profiling sessions.

    Lobsters5 min read
  • your c is not standard c

    this is an incomplete list of some incompatibilities between c as it's written in the standard and c as it exists in the real world for people who use gcc/clang + glibc/musl.

    Lobsters5 min read
  • What I've been seeing lately (in software)

    What is going on in software? You know what I’m talking about, the stuff with Generative AI. This thing that everyone is frothing talking about. Apparently I am too.

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  • What are you doing this week?

    What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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  • nobloat/poll - designing a minimal poll tool

    So, I wanted to send out a poll for our yearly "zeitkapsl Punsch" event, where we invite people who helped zeitkapsl become what it is today. Early customers, former development team members, etc. Well...

    Lobsters13 min read
  • Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python

    Python used to have limited parallelism, due to its global interpreter lock (GIL). Only one thread could run Python code at a time. Python 3.14 comes in a free-threaded version (python3.14t), without the global interpreter lock. Several threads can now run Python code at the same time.

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  • (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

    In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.

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