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9481. No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming (blog.reverberate.org)

Can Rust replace C? This is a question that has been on my mind for many years, as I created and now am tech lead for upb, a C library for Protocol Buffers. There is an understandable push to bring memory safety to all parts of the software stack, and this would suggest a port of upb to Rust. While ...

Josh Haberman Feb 3, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9482. How to use std::span from C++20 (www.cppstories.com)

In this article, we’ll look at std::span, which has been available since C++20. This “view” type is more generic than string_view and can help work with arbitrary contiguous collections. Updated in Feb 2025: added section about returning spans and C++26 improvements (.at() and creatoion from initial...

Bartlomiej Filipek Feb 3, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9483. Monitor Your Neon Usage Via Slack Alerts (neon.com)

We’ve shipped a Slack app to make it easier to monitor your Neon consumption metrics. By adding the app to your Slack, you’ll receive automatic notifications when you reach your plan limits for compute hours, storage, or data transfer. To install the app, follow the instructions here. How can I get ...

Neon Jan 31, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9484. Fixing JavaScript Timezone Issues (neon.com)

Working with timezones in JavaScript often feels like navigating a minefield. Recently, I faced a timezone issue when building a parking booking app while handling date storage in our database, something you may also encounter if you’re working across timezones. Here’s what went wrong, how we fixed ...

Neon Jan 31, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9485. Observations: Using Python with DeepSeek-R1 (blog.pamelafox.org)

Everyone's going ga-ga for DeepSeek-R1, so I thought I'd try it out in a live stream today: I'll summarize my experience in this post. I tried Python through two different hosts, via the OpenAI Python SDK GitHub Models: Open to anyone with a GitHub account, free up to a certain number of requests pe...

Pamela Fox by Pamela Fox Jan 31, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9486. Enterprise teams can now ship faster without build queues (vercel.com)

Vercel by Marc Codina Segura Jan 31, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9487. Select Hunks to Stage in Git (jaketrent.com)

How to pick which parts of what files you want to stage in git.Stage everythingOften, we want to stage and then commit all our changes in git. To change everything in the working directory,git add .Stage selectivelyTo stage selectively, git allows us an interactive interface for staging. Add the -i ...

Jake Trent by Jake Trent Jan 31, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9488. RCS Messaging Protocol (deploy-preview-325--pubnub-web-builder.netlify.app)

Upgrade SMS with RCS! Rich media, read receipts, encryption & more. Learn how it compares to WhatsApp & iMessage. Detailed Dev insights & benchmarks inside!

PubNub: by PubNub Labs Team Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9489. RCS Messaging Protocol (www.pubnub.com)

Upgrade SMS with RCS! Rich media, read receipts, encryption & more. Learn how it compares to WhatsApp & iMessage. Detailed Dev insights & benchmarks inside!

PubNub: by PubNub Labs Team Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9490. Android Bugsee SDK: Ignore the Docs, Do THIS Instead (blog.blundellapps.co.uk)

When introducing 3rd party libraries (like BugSee), often their configuration is dumped into your build.gradle/application:onCreate and mixed with everything else. This post shows you how to have cleaner, more maintainable code by creating your own… Read more of Android Bugsee SDK: Ignore the Docs, ...

Blundell's Android Tutorials Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9491. Privacy-Preserving Personal Search Appliance (ariya.io)

This is powered by SearXNG, an excellent open-source meta search engine.

Ariya Hidayat Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9492. Privacy-Preserving Personal Search Appliance (ariya.io)

This is powered by SearXNG, an excellent open-source meta search engine. Unlike traditional search engines like Google or Bing, SearXNG doesn’t crawl the web and index content. Instead, it leverages other search engines like DuckDuckGo, Qwant, and Mojeek to fetch results while protecting your privac...

Ariya Hidayat Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9493. Build an end-to-end RAG pipeline entirely in psql using pgrag and DeepSeek (neon.com)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) works by taking a user’s question, searching for information relevant to that question, and then including the retrieved information alongside the question in a prompt to an AI chat model: ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek, please answer question X using information A, B, ...

Neon Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9494. Edge Function metrics now available in Monitoring (vercel.com)

Vercel by Tobias Lins Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9495. Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is now faster and more cost-efficient (vercel.com)

Vercel by Harpreet Arora Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9496. ISR on Vercel is now faster and more cost-efficient (vercel.com)

Vercel by Greta Workman Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9497. From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club (zachholman.com)

<!doctype html> From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club a { color: rgb(233, 155, 64); border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(233, 155, 64); transition-property: color, background-color, border-color, text-decoration-color, fill, stroke, opacity, box-shadow, transform, filter, backdrop-filter; transition-timing-f...

Zach Holman Jan 30, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9498. Learn How to Use Neon with AWS RDS to Boost Development Velocity in Postgres (neon.com)

AWS workshops are a fantastic free resource created by the AWS team to help you tackle real-world challenges using AWS infrastructure. As an AWS Partner, we’ll be launching an AWS workshop to teach you how to use Neon as a development environment while keeping production workloads on AWS RDS: You c...

Neon Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9499. Sharing Tinder’s latest contributions to the open source community (medium.com)

Tinder Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9500. How did we build 3D animations in mobile apps? (medium.com)

Transferwise Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9501. Filter for your own requests in Logs (vercel.com)

Vercel by Tobias Lins Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9502. A New Software Engineer’s Journey at Kogan.com (devblog.kogan.com)

We are always excited to welcome new talent to our team! At the heart of our engineering culture is a robust and agile onboarding process that gets new joiners up to speed in no time. We pride ourselves on helping our teams hit the ground running, shipping fast, experimenting boldly, and embracing f...

Kogan.com Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9503. How AI Iterates (jaketrent.com)

Or, when AI tries again.As coders, we try many solutions. Sometimes it's because we're stupid and haven't learned any better yet. Sometimes it's because we're not happy with the result yet. Maybe something gnaws at us. Maybe a thrill to betterment invites us. We care about certain principles related...

Jake Trent by Jake Trent Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9504. Computing with tuple types in TypeScript (2ality.com)

JavaScript’s Arrays are so flexible that TypeScript provides two different kinds of types for handling them: Array types for arbitrary-length sequences of values that all have the same type – e.g.: Array<string> Tuple types for fixed-length sequences of values where each one may have a different typ...

Axel Rauschmayer Jan 29, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9505. Clients blocked by persistent actions now receive a 403 Forbidden response (vercel.com)

Vercel by Sage Abraham Jan 28, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9506. Image replacement in Canva designs using reverse image search (www.canva.dev)

Qualitative comparison of image embedding models to power a scalable similar-image replacement system for Canva designs.

Canva Jan 28, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9507. Updating Ruby Under a Microscope (patshaughnessy.net)

Ruby stores much of its own internal data in hash tables. I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while to finish. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. In the me...

Pat Shaughnessy by Pat Shaughnessy Jan 28, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9508. Tunnelling Torrents 'Properly' Over a VPN With Port Forwarding (blog.muffn.io)

📔 Intro # Anyone who’s tried torrenting over VPN knows it can be a bit of a pain. Sure, basic setups work - connect to VPN, start downloading, done. But if you want proper speeds and proper seeding ratios, there’s a bit more to it than that.

Monstermuffin by blog.muffn.io (muffn_) Jan 28, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9509. Move Beyond Skill-Based Matchmaking With PubNub Illuminate (deploy-preview-325--pubnub-web-builder.netlify.app)

Explore how matchmaking in multiplayer games evolves over time from Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) to personalized matchmaking. Learn about balancing fairness and engagement, leveraging real-time data, and building adaptive systems with PubNub.

PubNub: by Markus Kohler Jan 27, 2025 read 🤖 Summary

9510. Move Beyond Skill-Based Matchmaking With PubNub Illuminate (www.pubnub.com)

PubNub: by Markus Kohler Jan 27, 2025 read 🤖 Summary