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Mar 25, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Investigating MacPaint's Source Code

MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool palettes, and copy and paste integration with other applications. One of two lau...

Mar 25, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

2025 FOSSAsia - Bangkok, Thailand

Hot on the heels of SCaLE 22x I found myself on the way to Bangkok for the 2025 edition of FOSSAsia Summit. This meant an eleven hour flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo (Haneda), a seven hour layover...

Mar 24, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

The next generation of Bazel builds

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like. I write t...

Mar 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed

In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed

Mar 23, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W11

Less ceremony, more shipping — Tinybird introduces their new deployment tool, which simplifies data schema changes for teams. This tool automates the entire deployment process, ensuring no downtime...

Mar 23, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

Dirtbags! a Sci-Fi Shooter RPG: Gameplay Review!

No bugs, no glory! Dirtbags is a 2025 bug-blasting, action-packed dystopian satire in an rules-lite indie tabletop RPG. Get ready to drop! The post Dirtbags! a Sci-Fi Shooter RPG: Gameplay Review! ...

Mar 23, 2025 from Suffix

Getting Started with Meshtastic

A simple off-grid two-node setup from the command line.

Mar 23, 2025 from Boris Tane

One Database Per User with Cloudflare Durable Objects and Drizzle ORM

Using Durable Objects and Drizzle ORM to create isolated SQLite databases for each user in a Hono app

Mar 23, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep

I love taking photos , taking my Sony A7cii wherever I travel. Although it’s a relatively small camera, I recently got a Ricoh gr iii to be able to carry a good camera with me everywhere, even when...

Mar 21, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity?

In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding

Mar 21, 2025 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Keep Summer Safe

I recently built a small multi-agent simulation inspired by Rick and Morty. The setup is simple: The car must neutralize threats. Summer imposes constraints on the car’s behavior. The world generat...

Mar 20, 2025 from Coding Horror

The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income

The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

Mar 20, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

Testing AI Software Isn’t Like Testing Plain Old Software

AI software demands new approaches to testing that go far beyond existing software testing methodologies. And with the rapid evolution of AI model capabilities, the need for the software engineerin...

Mar 20, 2025 from Commented Out

Design of a processor and board independent driver layer

Reusability is an idea often touted in software, and embedded projects are no exception. In fact, the reasons for needing re-usability or ease of porting are often more pertinent to embedded projec...

Mar 19, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

How my selective mutism is connected to childhood trauma

Content Warning: childhood trauma, domestic abuse Hey everyone, I know I haven’t posted anything new for some time. I’ve been doing a lot of inner work to understand myself better and try to heal f...

Mar 19, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Your DevRel Questions Answered. Finally!

Welcome to my hot takes on DevRel where I share all my spicy opinions that are likely to get me lambasted on a certain social media site I don't use anymore.

Mar 19, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Transformers.js.py accelerated on-device inference with Python WASM

Transformers.js is an ambitious project by HuggingFace to bring transformers to Web/JS and simplify inference on-device, running onnxruntime-web under-the-hood. I’ve written blogs and apps with onn...

Mar 19, 2025 from Michael Lynch

No Longer My Favorite Git Commit

Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and ha...

Mar 18, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Enhancing Text-to-SQL With Synthetic Summaries

LLMs are being experimented with to do so many things today, and one of the use cases that sound compelling is getting their help to generate insights from data. What if you could find the answer t...

Mar 18, 2025 from nixCraft

Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!

Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially released! I am excited as I write this and can't wait to share some incredible ...